The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 21, 1934, Page 4

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1934. Daily Alaska Empire Published every evenin except Sunday by the EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class atter, ROBERT W. BENDER - - m: SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per _month. he following rates: 11, ostae pald, al ol g six months, in advance, R (gne year, h-mud'\anr;, 313.e 6.00; one month, In advanc 1 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Buslne’la hO{!loe of any fallure or irregularity the deli of_their paper: T Thefepfiolf:qor Editorial Lnj Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL, PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tb use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise éredited in this paper and also the local news published herein. A CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGE ALASINAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. CIVIL WORKS—IN RETROSPECT. throughout the Nation and the demobilization of the work army of 4,000,000 persons, which are now virtually completed, should serve to reassure those who feared it would be impossible for the Govern- mentto give up this form of relief. Of course, there is the LaFollette bill in the Senate appropriating more billions of dollars for continuing the same activity but it is not one of the measures favored by President Roosevelt whose own estimates do not mention any such sums. Private industry has not absorbed yet anything lke the vast numbers comprising the CWA army, but they have been carried througl: the difficult % The liquidation of the Civil Works program | | winter months and other relief agencies, largely the Federa! Lmergency Relief Administration, are be- lieved able (o care for those actually in need. In any event lias been demonstrated that the Fed- eral Gov inent n withdraw from its role asj Santa Cisus to the unemployed and get away from it politically. ‘The Civil Works program, organized in haste to pinch-hit for the slower-moving public works pro- gram, served two major purposes. It prevented undue hardship among several millions of needy unemployed during a period of unusual difficulty. And it released $1,000,000,000 of new purchasing power into the channels of trade at a time when business needed that stimulus. These achievements undoubtedly justify the cost of the program and more than compensate for the embarrassment it caused in some localities to local private industries through its higher wage scales. Like any other form of inflation, the Civil Works plan is“open to the objection that it creates a demand for goods and thereby stimulates business, only to disappear and leave a vgid in the business system. From the standpeint of its general impact on economic life, it was a shot in the arm and was useful economically only as it supplemented other, long-term policies. It is, therefore, extremely important that the liquidation of the Civil Works program should be final and permanent, and that public works and the restoration of a private capital market should be pushed forward vigorously to replace the inflationary effects of Civil Works. SOUND BANKS AND SOUND BANKING. If the lack of bank failures can e taken as proof of the soundness of banks and banking, then the whole country ought to rejoice in the condition now prevailing in its banking houses. Fewer bank faflures than at any time in 13 years is the record | mitted to a common cause against dirt, unsightly \3 buildings, | thing that defaces and makes ugly our city. These | pride, community spirit and prosperity. | with them! {ing health, promoting thrift, furthering fire protec- tion, stimulating civic and city pride, and making | the current year were extremely small and unable to qualify for participation in Federal Deposit Insurance. The reasons assigned for the almost complete cessation of banking difficulties were: Recovery in business conditions, causing the public to resume normal banking relations; effects of Gov- ernment insurance on bank deposits; higher com- modity, securities and real estate values, aiding banks in liquidating slow asssets; increased super- vision through the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor- poration; more than $1,000,000,000 of FRC purchase of preferred stock of the banks; and rcturn of hundreds of millions of dollars that had been hoarded during the depression. LET'S ALL WORK TOGETHER. Next Monday Annual Cleanup Week opens in this community. We should regard ourselves as an | organied army for the succeeding six days, com- unkempt yards and vacant lots, every- constitute the enemy to be banished from our gates. They are a very real enemy to health, to civic They breed disease carriers and even sickness itself. Away The chief benefits to the community and its residents from the movement are set forth in a joint proclamation issued this week by Mayor Gold- stein for the Municipal Government and C. T Gardner, President of the Chamber of Commerce, for the business organization. They are: safeguard- the home and city beautiful. They are hxghlyI desirable things to achieve. Yet they are not difficult of attainment if all of us, women, men {and children, join wholeheartedly in the movement. The consistent advertiser shows sound business judgment by his realization of the fact that good advertising is not an expense, and that it is an investment just as valuable as the stock of goods he carries. In recent months there has been much writing about the education of people to spend their spare time so as to get the most out of it. In other words, there are some people who would make a job out of spending leisure hours. One of the humiliating things about it is that the youth who thinks he knows more than his parents so often does. Reviving Trade. (New York Times,) The President’s special adviser on foreign trade, Mr. Peek, declared in his radio address last week that restriction of production is not a satisfactory solution of the farm problem. “In an emergency, yes; for continuance, no; not while American stock rules America.” The deliberate destruction of grow- ing crops, the attempt to create an artificial scarcity, the policy of enforced idleness for good land and willing labor, all this “runs against the grain of the American people.” The hope of agriculture lies rather in the improvement of purchasing power at home and in the recovery of lost markets oVerseas. In discussing the outlook for American exports, {Mr. Peek points out that trade “cannot be a one- |sided transaction.” If we have learned anything from experience, “it is that eventually our exports and imports approximately must balance.” Our large loans to foreign borrowers before 1930, our com- paratively heavy purchases of foreign goods, the expenditures of Americans traveling abroad, the remittances sent home by immigrants to this coun-.| try, all created a fund which enabled other coun- tries to buy our goods and to pay interest on their debts to us. But when these items contracted, or virtually disappeared, there followed a correspond- ing decline in the volume of goods we sold abroad and in the amounts we received in payment of our |loans. Mr. Peek would have us swap our surpluses |for those of other countries, “so that the joint |process not only will raise prices here but will, by |raising prices abroad, increase the opportunity to |purchase our products.” revealed for the first quarter of 1934 by the Nar.ian's' What of the interests of our own producers, rehabilitated banking system. Estimates of the Who would thus face increased “foreign competi- Comptroller bf Currency place the number at less tion”? The late Senator Dwight Morrow, testifying than 25. This compared with 3,500 which closed before a Congressional committee, once gave an last year and failed to reopen. In the fiscal year DSWer to this question that fits the present endeéd June 30, 1932, 2,430 closed of which some did Situation. He objected to the conception of trade resopen; 1555 for the fiscal year 1931; 765 for the oo @ limited thing, that you can cut up like a piece of pie, of which each person gets a certain fiscal year 1930; 576 for the year 1929; 565 for the ,mount» A truer conception is to think of it as a year 1928; and 1,013 in 1927, when the country ple which expands with the cutting: “The more was almost at prosperity's peak. trade there is in the world, the more there is All banks that closed in the opening quarter of for everybody.” | | ® No Argument! ® No Statement! i ‘ i i i ! . i i i Il o | | 1 1 Il 1 il i i i 1 i i 0 il i ‘ « Il 1 ‘ 1 ‘ Can stand against the testimony of our g many satisfied customers $ AS AUTHORIZED DEALERS ¢ of the * ; RAY HART BRADER OIL BURNERS ® We are in a position to give you the best to be had at any price! S RICE & AHLERS (0. PLUMBING HEATING SHEET METAL “We tell in advance what job will cost” PHONE 34 SYNOPSIS: The report that oil is being drilled for up stream a short way threatens to disrupt Ju- dith Dale’s effor Diablo dam accos ins’ plans, and to build the Rio 2ing to Tom Bev- with the five mil- lion dollar's lcft her by Bevins for the purpose. She fears it is a feint engineercd by Mor- who is trying to Ureak the Bevins will in Javer of dirs. Bevins and her daughter. She fears too that a visit from S lu[tl.nx. who holds a key picce of land, may mean troudle; he talks about Lis wife's desire for pretty things. Chapter 35 PACIFYING SCOGGINS “‘\,’ICLI,, sir, then we looked in a store window and there was a dress all shimmerin’ like it had fish scales on it,” Scoggins went on. “Sequins, they're called,” said Judith, “little metal things that dovetail into cach other.” “Well this one was a green one and Mamie she looked at it and then she looked at me and her eyes were chock-full of tears, just bein’ Lappy. ‘Ain’t it grand? she says. ext mornin’ I made like 1 was goin’ up to buy me a ceegar and I went to that store aimin’ to buy that dress for Mamie if it took my roll Whatcha think they asked for it? Two huadred and fifty dollars. I didn’t get it.” Judith appeared to be as shocked as Scoggins had hoped she would be, but beneath her sympathetic ex- pression was worry, What in the name of goodness was the man lead- ing up to? “Miss Judith, I got a chance to git them things for Mamie, Tommy a car and send him to col- lege, without waiting for trees to grow and him too old to go and Mamie too old to enjoy things. 1 got & chance right now. “You know that piece a land 1 got that juts into your flood hasin? There’s oil there and I'm here to tell you, you cain’t use it for water.” Oné trick that Judith had learned during her years as secretary to Big Tom Bevins was to maintain si- lence in a crisis, to let the other person speak first. Judith felt that the fate of the Rio Diablo Dam hung in precarious balance as she sat watching Scog- gins. Without his land there could be no dam, it formed a queer shaped snake's figure jutting far out into the flood basin. Big Tom’s faith in 8coggins had been so complete he had neglected to gain his consent to its use in writing. Judith remembered calling his attention to it the night of their first vigil, but he had insisted su a procedure would be jeopardizing Scoggins trust in him, after Secog gins had refused such a big price for his land. “Don’t reckon you understood, Miss Judy,” he began again, trou- bled shame in his voice, “I'm going to git oil on my land and I cain't if its flooded, see?” “What makes you think there is oil on your land?’ she inquired, with nothing but sympathetic inter- est in Ler voice. “’T*HERE'S been a man there with a divinin’ rod working about the place. To tell you th' truth, Miss Judy,” he leaned close and hall whispered, “there’s a great lake of oil underneath this here valley, yes sir, just like they've got up to Long- view.” “Strange the man didn't want to purchase it from you,” she mused. “He did,” was the quick answer, then loyally, “but I promised Big Tom I wouldn't sell to nobody.” Judith repressed a smile at the unintentioned satire of his mark— “and then what did he say “That he'd sink a test well and take a percentage for the sinkin’ if I'd see the place didn’t get flooded.’ “And how was that to be brought about?” . “He said he'd go to eourt for me and git an in-an in—" “Injunction,” offered Judith to whom the word was fast becoming a nemesis. “Yes that's it, a court order he ex- plained, keepin’ you from going ahead with your work until we could prove there’s oil there.” “Is he going to do that?” Judith asked, as calmly as she could. “Not unless he has to.” “But Mr. Scoggins you know as well as I do that the construction of the dam as it is going along now, won’t harm your land. The gates will be kept open for the very sake of the dam until it s completed. There |isn’t much chance of having a flood | llke you had here last year and if lyou did your oil land would be| flooded anyway, wouldn't it?” “Yeh, but he says once you get it bullt we can’t stop you, if we're Judith Lane _% | by JEANNE BQWMAN an git| Pt - | 20 YEAR® AGO ” Prom The Empire b o - APRIL 21, 1934 ! Interest wa saroused in Juneau by word that it was to be visited by European nobility during the | summer. According to existing plans the Duke de Montpelier|&: was to join the Prince of Monaco, owner of the Monte Carlo casino, in Juneau for a big game hunt in » the Interior of Alaska. The Duke wrote sfrom, China vhere he was cruising in his private yacht, in which he was to come north. The| | Prince of Monaco was to jomn goin’ to do anything we got to do I now.” “Then what did you mean he wouldn’t get out an injunction un: less he had to?” “Unless you'd agree to quit work without it.” Judith sat a few moments in si lence. A crisis like this needed a marn like Big Tom; not Justin Cunard, Judge Morgan nor afiy man she knew could handle it. She was Big Tom’'s stenographer, Helene W. L. Albrecht PROFESSIONAL ’ YHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 307 Goldstein Building | Phone Office, 216 | Graduate Nurse Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas sage, Colonic Irrigations Office hours 11 am. to 5 pm. Rose A. Ardrews } | | Evenings by Appointment | | Second and Main Phone 259 | she repeated to herself and she was going to act as she had acted in his when things came up she n't handle during his absence, him, making the trip on his own private yacht, Princess Alice. ing.” lovely gowns were in evidence and [ —— She would pretend he was tempor The .tanyo dancing - party heidI { E. B. WILSON ! arily absent. | the previous evening in the Elks'! | Chiropodist—Foot Specialist Scoggins, have you signed (Hall by Miss Louise Anderson,| | 401 Goldstein Building ! papers?” she asked. dancing instructor, was a tre-| | PHONWE 496 “No, Miss Judith, they was egging | mendous success. A large number|B——m-——————— ——& me on to do it, this man and Mamie, | of Miss Anderson’s pupils and|gs but I says no, I'm not signin’ noth- | many others were present. Many DRS. KASER & FREZBURGER | R T TR Fraternal Societies | i Gastineau Channel ————— OF B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday a$ 8 p.m Visiting brothers welcome. L. W. Turoff, Exalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. e S ——ary KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1786. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Council Chambers, Fifth Streol. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Becretary e S R L e MOUNT JUNEAT 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, Sesr retary. Weather for the wvrevious 24 !hours was ciouay with rain; the| | maximum temperature was 42 and the minimum was 35 degrees. e { couldn’t you?” “Yes, indeed, Miss Judith.” “Well, Mr. Scoggins, I'm acting as his secretary now and I'm going to carry out his orders, so think of R Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground L yourself as dealing with him. Give me a few days to think this over. I | | want to explore an angle I've just thought about, and then I'll meet you and give you my decision. Is that Shop mn JYuneau HOLLYWOOD [ s 1t i SHOE PARLOR ||| ; oo | “And you will give me your word | Shoes Made Like New i that you will not sign anything un While U Wait o DR. R. £. SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optician 7 “That's fine, Mr. Scoggins, 1 tried | most of the men wore evening j DENTISTS | = ~ — 5 to talk Big Tom into getting you tc | glothes, i Blomgren Building V| o ek g0 P ] '\.,w"A u.n u:__:rco;nem 101; our use of il PHONE 56 E time. A tank for Diesel Oil | e o B ":_‘é“’;f” Klonda Olds still led in the|| Hours am. to ® Pm. 1] 44 5 fank for crude oil save ink eyeryihing e ol your | M2y Queen contest with a con-|¥——————————"""">"" burner trouble. Word:” siderable margin over the closcst‘:?._fi—C—P—J—— — | PHONE 149; NIGHT 148 ! “He said that?” came the pleased, | cAndidate. The “canvas at mnoon; r. C. P. Jenne ELIABLE TRANSFER incredulous question. | showed the following: Klonda DENTIST = R T j; | Olds, 71; Sylvia Koskey, 28; Al- | Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine ! 2 .I...1 dont DB Sowerby, 28; Nina Jorgenson, Building ik want to do this. It's just Tommy ! 21; Esther Josely, 21. Telephone 16 | NOW OPEN | and Mamie and being able to give NGB S L A ~ 2 e them things. I've got to Miss Judy, Every man and boy in wwni: AR 1, Lommercu}l AdJHSt I Towe it to them, that fish-scale dress | who could drive a nail or saw a| B T = < B | ment&Rating Bureau and a car for Tommy—" { plank was asked to be on hand on Dr. J. W. Bayne | Cooperating with White Service | the following Sunday to help in the DENTIST P& Bureau | ] KNOW,” Judith, like Big Tom |erection of @ grand stand and Rooms 5-6 Triangle Blg. ||| Room 1—Shattuck Bldg. | was putting her trust in the mar | bleachers at the Recreation Park| | Office aours, 8 am. to 5§ pm. | We have 5000 local ratings | | &3 she spoke, "I do understand how |in Last Chance Basin. The call| | «venings by appointment | || on file i you feel, but I'm going to ask you |had been sent out by the Base-| | Phone 321 i £ il a to do something for Big Tom. No |ball managers. Following the work, ! & il ] e -~ not give up your oil. Mr. Bevins |a big barbecue and lunch was to|= I - would never have asked you to sac | pe supplied the workers by women | ¥ = | FINE | rifice yourself for him, would he’ | yvolunteers. Robert Sizapson Watch and Jewelry Repairing And you could have depended upor | { O t D at very reasunavle rates him to play fair with you, always pL. L. WRIGHT SHOPPE PAUL BLOEDHORN 2 |63 JUNEAU-YOUNG | Funeral Parlors | —f3 til after I've talked with you, nor | go ahead with any of the plans this | man offe; i Dr. Richard Williams Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted yRoom 7, Valentine Bldg. | l Licensed Funeral Directors | Office Phone 484; Residence | | | and Embalmers Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 | | | Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 | to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 & :: | — - SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings for Men R ral] © MARE DENTIST | your land, he will wait.” i Constructi C {'| QFFICE AND RESICENCE “Of ‘course . yes, of course he | onstruction Co. i Gastineau Building W11, won't h | | Juneau Phone 487 | | | Phone 481 i | They shook hands. Secoggins | £11 5 5 I started to go but Judith had mo | 2 [ tioned Delphy and the old womanap | |* T)p. A. W. Stewart | C. L. FENTON | peared with a coffee pot and s | 2 :‘)E‘\I'I:XST . CHIROPRACTOR | frosted cake. They talked of every. | ™ th ¥ront St. next | thing excepting oil and dams and | Hours § am. fo 6 pm. | Doy : < 2 | when Scoggins left he had forgotten | | SEWARD BUILDING | Erownlos Beches Bhoo his dogged, half-shamed manner of | Office Phone 409, Res. | Sifica Houme: 1Fid: 39 the earlier evening. 1L Phone 276 L Rverings by, Avnoipseny | - After he had left, Judith slipped a | *— OV B - < light sweater over her head and | - | trudged up to the “Ship Rock”, | | Wearily she stretched out on the | | rock and looked out on the plains, a | blue-black bow! topped by a blue | black sky. | Was it worth the heartache and | worry, this building of Diablo Dam? | Surely it seemed that el diablo was at the bottom of it, something devil- PHONE 549 IDEAL PAINT SHOP If I's Paint We Have It! Wendt & Garster ‘15)1 seemed to dog her footsteps as she sought to carry out her in- '|and now they didn’t want the proj- structions. She had sacrificed her husband, | her home, herself on the altar of Big Tom’s ideal and for what? He had been building for the people ect that had indirectly robbed him of his life. She laughed, a broken catch in | her voice as she realized it was memory of Scoggins' house heing | swept from its foundations in the | storm, that had sent her away from | Norman in the moment of her de- cision. And now Scoggins — she heard a noise and looked up. A huge figure was silhouetted against the milky glow of a million stars, “Delphy,” she cried, startled. “Yassam,” came the plaintive re- ly. “What are you doing up here? I thought you were in bed.” “Nome.” Without words they went back to | the house, Judith meekly accepting her bed-time drink and massage, which she suffered in an effort to repay Delphy for her devotion. “Morning brought Slim Sanford, and with him one of the foremost geologists of the country. (Copyright, 1934, by Jeanne Bowman) Monday, Judith and Slim go on a scouting trip. 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