The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 5, 1934, Page 4

e 8 Daily Alaska Empire : blished eve: evenl except Sunday by EMPIRE PRINTING ‘COMBANT &t Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. ROBERT W. BENDER - SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for .2 Belam o Fhe following rates mall, postage pald, at the fol s Oneyean 1 mdvanch. $12.00; six months, 1o advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.2. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Buslnerll‘hO{flae of any failure or irregularity delivi of eir pers. I ifephons Yor Baltorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL, 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 THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. THE PENNY DRIVE. Ordinarily, The Empire is chary about supporting campaigns in the city for causes or institutions not located within the Territory. Generally speak- ing, the people of Juneau as well as of every other town are taxed heavily enough to provide funds for the support of local causes and institutions, to care for local needy and meet other local obliga- tions. When we have met those obligations, and usually they are well met, we have given about | all we can afford as a community to do. In the case of the current Penny Drive for the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital in Seattle, we Ieeli that an exception is justified to the general rule. That is one institution, which depends entirely upon public support, that is entitled to all of the financial assistance we can give it. I§ has done and is doing a wonderful work in the treatment of and healing of crippled children. For many years it has given to Alaska youngsters in that category the very best of care and treatment that science and money could provide, and in very many instances it did so without thought of recompense. For some years now, the Alaska Legislature has recognized the institution’s worth to the Territory and has made modest appropriations for its assistance. We, as individuals, are now given an opportunity to con- tribute our mites to it. It is not a drive in the usual sense of that term. No effort is being made to solicit funds. Envelopes for voluntary contribu- tions are being distributed in the city. Any sum, however, small, will be welcomed. The entire pro- ceeds will be sent to the Orthopedic Hospital. No finer cause has been presented to us. And no money can be put to better use than that which| is donated to it. PAUPER’S OATH. Very much as individuals sometimes take the pauper's oath to establish in law an insolvency which may or may not be true in fact, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht is swearing by all that's holy that Germany cannot continue service of her foreign long-term debt. The situation is a very difficult one to assess with precision. # Dr. Schacht, head of the Reischbank contends that Germany’s gold coverage of notes is down to less than seven per cent, while 20 per cent is usually considered disturbingly low. He points that exports have declined greatly, and says that Germany can no longer import raw materials without either defaulting on debt service or borrowing abroad. He proposes, no doubt taking an extreme position for bargaining purposes—that interest rates on Ger- man bonds be cut from six or seven per cent to about three and one-half per cent, and that a total moratorium of several years be declared including even the Dawes and Young loans, heretofore in a special category. At the preliminary meeting of the Germans and their creditors at Basel no agreement was possible. The showdown is to come before the end of the month at Berlin. Dr. Schacht’s case is a plausible one. His pauper’s oath has the ring of sincerity. But on the other hand, it should be recalled that Germany has some gold assets concealed, and has profited tremendously by the depression, so far as foreign debts are con- cerned. Devaluation and depreciation of foreign currencies ‘while the mark was held' at gold par has in effect reduced the Reich's debt burden tremendously. From 27,000,000,000 marks it has been cut to about 12500,000,000 marks.. One-half this latter figure is short-term and is under a stand- still agreement recently renewed. The remainder is long-term and will be dealt with at the Basel parley. The outcome is likely to be compromise. But, whatever the arrangements made, they will represent month average improvement in the 15-year period for which data is available. Yet there are still millions unemployed. The consuming power of our enormous domestic market is only in the process of restoration. Day by day it is being built up. In the process industry has learned many things. Notably, that with vast economies made possible under codes, labor cost not only is eliminated as a competitive item, but the payment of living wages and sustained employment actually proves to be profitable as an investment. In asking business “to give first consideration to improvement of operating figures by greatly in- creased sales from rising purchasing power,” Presi- dent Roosevelt insured industry that such a course could be depended upon. “With a strong, sound upward spiral of business activity,” he said, indus- tries need have “little doubt of blank ink opera- tions in the last quarter of 1933.” A more accurate prophesy is seldom uttered. The pent-tip demand of the people for goods and services, he said, was 50 vast that “we need not fear a lagging recovery.” And that confident predicfion | likewise is being fulfilled to the exent that’ cooperation with the President is being granted. " WSS L | SIS S A Republican Congressman charges that the Gov- ernment is being run by the Roosevelt Administra- tion from a “little Red House” in Georgetown. Any- way it is a few miles removed from the “little Green House” used so much during the Harding Administration. Taxes and Income. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) The ratio of taxes to national income has been rising steadily during depression, and in 1932—the latest year for which there are complete data— reached 20.3 per cent, according to the National Industrial Conference Board. In other words, for every five dollars of income, the American people paid one dollar in taxes, either Federal, State or local. This is a startling figure in comparison with 1929, when the ratio was 11.8 per cent. The increase in the ratio of taxes to income is due more to the decline of income, than to increase of taxes. As a matter of fact, tax col- lections have fallen very considerably since 1930. But the national income took a veritable nbse-dive after 1930. While taxes were declining from $10,000,000,- 000 to $8,000,000,000, the income of the nation dropped from $83,000,000,000 to less than $40,000,000,- 000. When 1923 figures are compiled, they probably will show an increase of both income and taxes, and a decline in the ratio of taxes to income. If the trend of the last three years were likely to be permanent, with taxes absorbing a steadily larger segment of the national income, we should be facing a still graver situation than we do. It is reasonable to assume, however, that recovery will bring a rise in income greater than that in taxes. The vastness of our public debt and the expansion of governmental functions, nevertheless, suggest that we shall not get back to the point where taxes take only a tenth of the total income. Even the disturbing figure of 20.3 per cent for 1932, however, is not as spectacular as the burden of taxes in Europe. In England, taxes consume 28 per cent of income, in Germany 22 per cent, and in France 25 per cent. None of these three European countries has had the enormous increase in recent years which we have had in America. The implication of the figures is that government remains relatively less costly in the United States, but that the disparity between this country and Europe is less ‘from year to year, as we tend toward adoption of those expensive social gifts and bureaucratic services so general in Europe. (New York World-Telegram.) Heavy water is a phrase whick, it seems, we'll have to get used to, for nowadays whenever one picks up a there is another about it. Neither frozen assets, watered stock nor water on the brain affords any analogy to help under- stand heavy water. It is something scientific. Heavy water is H20, but the hydrogen atom here carries extra weight—is, indeed, an atom of double ‘mass called deuterium. The tears of the weeping willow tree are said to be of heavy water, but a better place to search for it is in a laboratory. There it can be produced for about $6,000 a pint. Heavy water's hydrogen atom, say the scientists, is the most effective projectile yet found for bombarding other atoms. It can't smash them, but it knocks them farthest. It retards fermentation, and therefore it may prove to be a valuable treatment for cancer. Its accumulation in the body may be a cause for the symptoms of old age. If a tadpole or guppy is placed in heavy water it will die, and tobacco seeds in it will not sprout. But a drop given to a mouse will send him off on a jag. * And that's all we know about heavy water yet. It is new and strange, and from here it looks as if one might blame almost anything on it. newspaper story The “Tough Guy.” (Columbus Dispatch.) Whether Roosevelt spoke in jest or whether he was hiding a truth behind his smile when he told those Congressmen with the band the other day a renewal of the deflation process, and this defilation will be felt in the United States, where $750,000,~ 000 of German bonds are held. IT TAKES MARBLES TO PLAY MARBLES. “You can't play marbles without marbles,” said O. 8. Kincaid, President of a textile manufacturing concern of Clifton, Tenn, in raising wages ten per cent. *“It is in keeping with the spirit of the times,” he explained which led the Knoxville News- Sentinel to comment that “This is a good spirit in itself. National Recovery will be hastened if all employers who are able will restore wage cuts.” And many are doing so. Possibly influenced by recognition that steel has been the barometer of business in the United States since it became a great industrial nation, there followed in the wake of that industry’s wage increase of ten per cent similar action by manufacturers of stoves, carpets, flour, brass, nickel, etc., street rallways companies and a variety of others. Reports of progress have been frequent and im- pressive. A recent survey by the Department of Commerce showed that the weekly average wage in that he was a “tough guy,” the fact is he is a “tough guy,” and is pretty well sold on following his own ideas. It is this belief in his independence that accounts in large part for his sustained popu- larity. Not half the people who believe in him would continue to do so if they thought for a moment he would be influenced in any vital matter by Counsel Richberg’s dangerous ideas or Professor Tugwell’s program for scrapping the Constitution or Secretary of Agriculture Wallace’s scheme for instituting any “planned economy” in all the gov- ernmentdl Supervision of the individual that the phrase implies. [ A The majority of ‘people in the country believe that he is a “tough guy” and can manoeuvre Con- gress and the brain trust to get what he wants. An English author who has been looking us over reports in a London paper that one characteristic he noted constantly was “the natural bustle of American women.” Possibly he spent much of his time at beaches—(Boston Herald.) A convalescent patient usually is cross, which may help to explain the country's strike epidemic.— (Detroit Free Press.) However, you may say this for ole Doc Wirt. February was the highest since 1931, the hourly average rate being within 4.1 per cent of the rate. of February, 1929, and that the 12 per cent February " gain over January constitutes the greatest one- He didn't knock the cooking.—(Macon Telegraph.) A continental regime nowadays is known by the shirts 1 ‘wears —(Bftalo, Courlag-Bxpress,) - w5 omy TWo AMm. pAD-IM GOwG ouT ~ AN' PLAY AWHILE 7 o @ W00z wrenoED =, U5 ALL TO BE GENTLEMEN GENTLEMEN BUSINESS ONFERENCE Do you nap in the dayfimg? hours? Fall asleep when custom By F. B. COLTON i (Associated Press Science Writer) WASHINGTON, May 5.— It isn't natural for humans to sleep all night. That's the latest finding of scientific sleep studies, and new comfort, incidentally, for young- and night-life devotees who like to come in with the milkman. If the human race followed its instincts, people would catch “haif a dozen brief naps during the day and night instead of concentrat- ing their daily slumber in one eight hour stretch. Should man’s primordial sleep habits ever re- assert themselves from out of the dim past, the world’s work might cease several times through the 24 hours while everybody took a cat nap. Long Sleep Just Habit The night-long sleep, with 16 hours of uninterrupted wakefulness in between, is just a habit man has picked up since he gained greater brain power, says a summary of sleep studies just published by the National Research council. And, d1- though the habit seems firmly root- ed, it really wouldn't be so diffi- cult for man to slip back into the old cat-nap pattern of sleep fol- lowed by the lower animals, the scientists say. Tt requires brains to sleep as hu- mans do, the fesearch shows. If the cortex, or gray matter of a man's would be unable to sleep a solid eight hours. This has been shown by experi< ments with dogs. Normal dogs have enough gray matter to learn and follow the habit of sleeping all night and staying awake all day But dogs, with the gray matter of their brains removed lose the habit and have half a dozen periods of sleep through the day. Tt explains why new-born babies sleep at intervals and then awaken A young baby's higher brain cen- ters are not yet “wired up” to the rest of its nervous system, so ‘it acts like an animal without gray matter in its sleep habits. NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF JUNEAU, ALASKA: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That pursuant to an act of Con- gress entitled “An Act to authorize the incorporated City of Juneau Alaska, to undertake certain muni- cipal public works, including re- grading and paving of streets and sidewalks; installation of sewer and water Dpipes; bridge construction and replacement; construction of concrete bulkheads, and construc- tion of refuse incinerator; and for such purposes to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $103,000", ap- proved April 25, 1934, and pursuant to Resolution of the Common Coun- cil of the City of Juneau, Alaska a special election will be held in the said City of Juneau, Alaska, on the 22nd day of May, 1934, between the hours of 9 am. and 7 p.m. of said day, at which said election the qualified eleciors of and in th said incorporated city of Juneau Alaska, whose names appear on the last assessment roll of said city for municipal taxation, are invited to vote on the following mentioned questions or propositions, to-wit: (1) Whether are not the in- corporated City of Juneau, Al- aska, shall issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $51,400, pay- able in thirty years from the date thereof, bearing interest at a rate of not more than 6 per. annum, and the proceeds thereof to be used for the pur- pose, of regrading and paving streets and sidewalks. (2) Whether or not the in- corporated City of Juneau, Al- sters who hate to go to bed early | brain, were removed, he probably, Hate tc go to bed at conventional says ycu should be awake? If so, youw're following nature’'s intentions. Science says it isn’t natural to get all your slecep in one eight-hour stretch. aska, shall issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $2,750, pay- able in thirty years from the date thereof, bearing interest at a rate of not more than 6% per annum, and the proceeds thereof to be used to install sewer and water pipes. (3) Whether or not the in- corporated City of Juneau, Al- aska, shall issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $5,000, pay- able in thirty years from the date thereof, bearing interest at a rate of not more than 6% per annum, and the proceeds thereof to be used to construct a new bridge over Gold Creek at Calhoun Road. (4) Whether or not the in- corporated City of Juneau, Al- aska, shall issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $12,850, pay- able in thirty years from the date thereof, bearing interest at a rate of not more than 6% per annum, and the proceeds thereof to be used to construct concrete bulkheads on Gas- tineau Avenue and Calhoun Road or Avenue. (5) Whether or not the in- corporated City of Juneau, Al- aska, shall issue bonds in any sum' not exceeding $25,000, pay- able in thirty years from the date thereof, bearing interest at a rate of not more than 6% per annum, and the proceeds thereof to be used to construct a refuse incinerator. \ (6) Whether are not the in- corporated City of Juneau, Al- aska shall issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $6,000, pay- able in thirty years from the date thereof, bearing interest at a rate of not more than 6% per annum, and the proceeds thereof to be used to employ such engineering supervision any pay such overhead expenses as may be necessary in con- nection with the above men- tioned public works. That the entire area embraced within the corporate limits of said City of Juneau, Alaska, shall con- stitute one voting precinet, and that the polling place shall be in the City Hall, or Fire Hall, at the corner of Main and Fourth Streets, in the said City of Juneau. All persons who are citizens of the United States, twenty-one years of age or over, and who have been residents of Alaska for the period of one year and of the City of Juneau, Alaska for six months im- mediately preceeding the date of said election, and whose names ap- pear on the last assessment roll or tax roll of said City for the purposes of municipal taxation, are qualified to vote at said elec- tion. DATED at Juneau, 28th day of April, 1934. CITY OF JUNEAU, ALASKA by and through its Common Alaska, this Council By 1. GOLDSTEIN, Mayor, Attest: A. W. HENNING, City Clerk. First publication, April 28, 1934. Last publication, May 19, 1934. The Florence Shop i Permanent Waving a Specialty ' | | i Exclusive Dealers HORLUOK'S | DANISH ICE CREAM | — | { Parlors | FOR STOVES flame. _ Plumbing The White Ray Oil Burner Will positively burn oil with a clean white Absolutely no soot. See This Burner In Operation . ® Harri Machine Shop Heating AND RANGES e Py 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire P | MAY 5, 1914 Lieut. Glen C. Edgerton, member of the Alaska Road Commission, arrived from Valdez and was to be in Juneau for some time. Accom- panied by Supt. J. C. Hayes, he left for an inspection tour of the Sovernment Sheep Creek road. Mail arriving from Dawson on he last steamers from the North showed signs of approaching spring. [t was water soaked and showed evidence of high water at the river crossings. iy Denny’ Malloy, who had fractur- ed the bone in the middle finger of his right hand practicing base- ball, was unable to play for at least another fortnight, Dr..L. O. Eggington declared after taking an x-ray of the injured member. This was the fans who had hoped to see him in the opening game. It was possible that the first game of the season would be played between Juneau and Douglas on the fol- lowing Sunday, but only possible. J. R. Willis ot the B. M. Behrends Bank and mercantile establish- ments, had purchased the beautiful home building ,site from J. B. Marshall immediately adjoining the handsome residence of the latter on Sixth Street. The price paid was $2,025. Little Misses Esther and Eliza- beth Kaser, the twin daughters of Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Kaser, refus- ing to let mama and other Draper Club members who sponsored the May Day dance, have anything on them, their little friends in the after- noon with an outdoor May party. The May pole dance was performed with all the dignified gaity ex- hibited by the larger folk several nights previously at the Elks’ Hall. Weather for the previous 24 hours was clear with a maximum temperature of 64 degrees and a minimum of 31. ML o WOOD FOR SALE Block wood and klindling. Phone a distinet disapointment to| t1 DPe. C P Jenne 1] entertained 2 number of | | | PROFESSIONAL | Helene W. L. 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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, Ses~ retary. T Our trucks go any place any time. A tank for Diesel Oil and a tank for crude oil save burner trouble. PHONE 149; NIGHT 148 RELIABLE TRANSFER_J. e NOW OPEN | Commercial Adjust- ! ment & Rating Burean Cooperating with White Service Bureau | Room 1—Shattuck Bldg, We have 5,060 local ratings on file Fi-- b B Opt. D. at very reasunsvle rates || ©raduate Los Angeles Col- WRIGHT SHOPP! I | | Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground - = 3 . T—E__? “—DR. K. £ SOUTHWELL | JUNEAU-YOUNG | 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 1 | venings by appointment, ' .{ Funeral Parlors f Licensed Funeral Directors | | and Embalmers Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 ] 358. 2dv. 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