The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 14, 1934, Page 4

| | i 1 | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MAY 14, 193 Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER GENERAL MANAGER Published eyening except Sunday by the 4 PRH:TYTQII:\"G OM!!ANY Apt Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. — Entered In the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSORIPTION RATES. Oelivered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for s per_month. By mall, postage pald, at the following rates: One yoar, In advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, $6.00; one month, in advanve, $1.26. Subscribers will confer & favor it they will promptly potify ‘the Business Office of any fatlure or irregularity t livery of their papers. I enione Tor Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL PRESS. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to tt use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not nthpbrwlhnedcl:edn,ed in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THMAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. JUNEAU LOSES CAPABLE EDUCATOR. In the resignation of R. S. Raven from his position as City Superintendent of Schools, Juneau loses a capable and successful educator and school executive. He maintained the public school system here on a high plane, advanced its scholarship standards and put it on a basis of recognized stand- ing with the finest public schools of the Pacific Northwest. Under him, the schools have grown in size and scope of work. The scholarship rating of the Juneau High School is second to none in the Northwest. Its graduates are welcomed in any Northwest and Western insti- tution of higher learning. Those who have enrolled for higher education from Juneau have made, almost invariably, enviable scholastic records. That, we believe, is the ultimate test of the fitness of schools to perform the work for which they are designed. In accepting the appointment of a similar post at Marysville, Wash., Mr. Raven has undoubtedly taken 2 step forward in his profession. That, of course, is highly gratifying to his many friends here. The community regrets to have him depart, but it naturally rejoices with him over the recogni- tion that is thus given him. RECOVERY IS SHOWN IN SAVINGS » BANKS GAINS. Gains in commercial banking deposits; in reserves of the same institutions have been heralded months ago. There is another part of the banking field which has of late been showing unmistake signs of revived life and from which the social benefits are readily discernible. And that is among the savings banks. The drain upon the latter institutions, as the depression wore alofig, ‘cale Yo” represent” chieffy the lack of a job and of cash to keep on running the house. So the savings had to be dipped into even after commercial banks began to gain largely in deposits. Now the mutual savings banks of New York State show for the first quarter of this year the first gain, (some $24,000,000), since the end of 1932. Most significant of all was the rate of gain four times as fast in March as in January, despite many restrictions on amount of new deposits lately in this low-rate era. Elsewhere in the East the credit has largely been attributed to the coming of Federal deposit insur- ance, but in most of New England and New York the mutuals are attending to that matter on their own account. Also, the biggest gain in amount and number of depositors are in the bigger and densest centers. It seems to bespeak more employ- ment and more confidence. HEALTH CODE FOR GROWING CHILDREN. In connection with the nationwide observance of Child Health Day recently, Dr. I. H. Goldberger, Assistant Director of Health Education of New York City, proposed the following short chart as a guide for healthy and happy children: « 1. To visit, at least once a year, the family physician, and semi-annually a den- tist. for periodic examinations and advice . as to how to live healthfully. 2. To seek treatment for the correction or alleviation of all physical and mental defects early in a child’s life. 3. To obtain protection against smallpox and diphtheria at six months of age, or soon thereafter, and immunization against typhoid fever, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough when necessary. 4. To serve the “protective foods” daily —a quart of milk, fresh raw fruits and vegetables, eggs, and vitamin D in some convenient form, as aids to maintain good . nutrition. 5. To reserve a rest hour daily, especially after school, to prevent and relieve fatigue. 6. To encourage children to play out- doors in the sunshine, approriately dressed, * to obtain the benefits of exercise and re- creation, and of healthful sun rays. 7. To provide a healthful, cheerful and happy home environment. 8. To insist on ten hours’ sleep every night in a quiet, well-ventilatéd room. Most of these objectives are obtainable to the average family. They are simple, commonplace and based on common sense and experience. Keep them in mind every day in the year since each day of the 365 ought to be Child Health Day. ’ NOT THE MIND OF A REVOLUTIONARY. _ Often the workings of a mind is more clearly in an off-hand, or impromptu talk than & carefully prepared address. Such seems to have ‘been the case in President Roosevelt's recent speech to a crowd at the Subsistence Homesteads Exhibit, ' where articles were displayed of handicraft produced homesteads now being made available to indi- du for whom opportunity has passed by. Inspired by the occasion, the President, among other things. thusiasm for planning, except that there is nothing spectacular .about it. We aré very apt to favor the panaceas, suggested legislation which, it is said, will cure all our troubles in thirty days. We are lazy. We don’t like to think ahead, but we have to look ahead. Those who speak of revolution are wrong. What they should do is to drop the first letter of the word. We are going through evolution, and not revolution. These are not the words of a doctrinnaire leader. Rather they represent the mind of one who refuses dogmatic doctrines and fits his policies to meel the problems as they arise. To plan one must experiment. If one experiment does not yield desirable results, there is no holding to it ds- perately. It is abandoned and another substituted More and more the country is coming to under- stand this attitude of Mr. Roosevelt, and to trust his judgment as to the effectiveness of the planning even though there is no outburst of enthusiasm for the detafl work involved. Perhaps the W. C. T. U. in approving birth control under proper authority, had in mind that a high moral, intellectual and physical average s more important than a high birth rate. Hate comes in many forms sources, but there is none like reformer has for another reformer. and from many the hatred one Why a Prix de Rome? (New York World-Telegram.) A young PWA worker, Robert A. Weppner, has won the Prix de Rome, which gives him two years' residence at the American Academy in the Italian capital. This is & fine achievement. And yet why send one of the most promising young American architects to Rome for two years? This country is the world's leader in architecture now. And its greatest contributions arise out of our own soil, according to our own genius and needs. The Prix de Rome was established when the American people thought that nothing was good in art unless it was imported. It is perhaps little known that every part of the United States developed before 1860 has an excellent and original architecture of its own. It seems that it would be far better to give such a man as Robert A. Weppner a two-year commission to study American architectural sources and to pioneer in development of an architecture which would serve the future while fitting the country in which it would be built. Slandering the C. C. C. Camps. (New York Herald Tribune.) Secretary Dern’'s protest against the charges of pacifists that the C. C. C. camps are “militaristic” will be sympathetically echoed by all who know from personal experience how the Conservation Corps camps are run. The attackers of the camps are, of course, seeking not only to discredit the system but to arouse resentment against the Army. On both counts they are misleading and unfair. The C. C. C. camps have been successful beyond most of the relief program. They have been costly, it is true, but they have borne good fruit. Not only has valuable work been performed but the young men who have attended the camps have been vastly senefited, spiritually as well as physically. They have learned the discipline of labor and of co- operative living. They have improved in health and strength. The success of the camps has been due in no small measure to the Army officers in charge of them. These men, far from being “militaristic” in the discreditable sense of the word, have been tolerant, understanding and effective. They have built up morale and created a spirit of self- enforced discipline that is a credit to their own training and character. To attempt to belittle them and to charge that the camps are breeding places of “militarism” is unjust. It is true that the men who attend the camps corie away with a new respect for Uncle Sam and : greater appre- ciation of the work of our Army in peace time. If this is “militarism,” then the country can well stand more of it. New Bible Evidence. (New York Times.) Professor Garstang has summed up the evidence supplied by the Jericho excavations in this succinct statement as reported by Sir Charles Marston: Set side by side with the Bible narrative, the material evidence is seen to bear out in every essential detail the record of the capture and destruction of Jericho by the Israelites under Joshua. Now word comes through Sir Charles that an- other confirming “sensational” find has been made. The newly discovered ruins are believed to be those of the Bible city Lachish, which was also captured and destroyed by Joshua. The King, of Lachish was one of the five kings that encamped against Gibeon because it had made peace with Joshua. It was in the ensuing battle in which Joshua with his mighty men of valor came to the help of Gibeon that the “sun stood still upon Gibeon" and that the “moon stayed in the valley of Ajalon.” There followed the dramatic story of the finding of their imprisonment, of the ceremony in which the war chiefs put their feet upon the necks of the kings, of the hanging of the five kings to five trees and of their burial in the “cave wherein they had hidden themselves.” A few days later Lachish was taken and all its inhabitants were put to the sword. So also were the other hill cities destroyed and “the land had rest from war.” This all took place 3,300 years ago or thereabout, but ages and ages after the time of the Neander- thal man, who 60,000 years ago went to sleep in another Palestian cave and has only recently been discovered, as reported in last Sunday’s Times. What he could tell of the world would be little by com- parison with the testimony of the five petty kings, which might indeed have been put into writing, for one of the most important revelations of the recent excavations is that there was ‘“general use of writings” in the days of Moses and Joshua, and that therefore it is no longer to be held that their sayings and doings were preserved only through oral transmission. The cumulative evidence supports the “reasonable correctiveness” of the earlier books of the Old Testament. Such is the general con- clusion which Sir Charles reaches. England might get rid of that embarrassing treasury surplus by sending over more than a token payment to Uncle Sam.—(8t. Louis Post-Dispatch.) The two big problems of the day are to put the unemployed to work and keep those who have jobs from striking.—(Ohio State Journal.) New Dry Chief Sees Chaos, says a headline What! Any more chaos than Prohibition?—(Jackson- ville Times-Unlon.) of the five kings hidden in a cave after the battle, | SYNOPSIS: Pierre Dufresne, po= litical power awd_contractor. beew ambushed om o lonely road near the city. It may be the work of the person who has beem send- ing him anonymous threatening letters. but Sergeant Harper is not sure. At dinner in the Austerlits with Dufresne, Harper has been puszled by his host’s heavy drink- ng, and by his hints that someons close to him may be responsible. Chapter Six DULL NIGHT ‘WENTY-FOUR uniformed meén were drawn up in two paralle} lines across the Squad Room of the Fourteenth Precinct, the most out- lying police district of the ¢ity. men wore their heavy winter coats,| for it had turned bitterly cold and a howling snowstorm was under way. During the afternoon the storm had made several false starts, with brier flurries, but now the flakes were whirling furiously against the steam- ing windows, driven by a shrill northwest wind. Lewis finished the rollcall. *“No stalling tonight, men!” he snapped. “Pull your boxes on schedule, or I'll come cut looking for you myself. Dismiss!” Instantly the lines lost their wooden character. The men broke ranks and made for the door, snug gling their coats more firmly about their shoulders and chatting as they » o — 3°MOCKING HOUSE BY WALTER C. BROWN oper leat of the police “blotter,™ which bore the same date as the cal- endar pad. There was not a single scrach of writing on its bl od surface. “It looks like a shut-out, all righ:,” he commented. Byers glanced at the clock. It in- dicated ten minutes to nine. “There are still three hours till midnight,” he suid. “On the next ‘pull’ I'll tell the boys to get us some business,” be jested. The Sergeant smoothed down the sheet. “Not muck chance now—on a nigh: like this. 1 never drew a total blank before. It must be something like a record.” A silence fell, and they listened to the wind lashing the snow against the windows with unabated fury. “It must be a couple of inches deep by this time.” Lewls observed. “If this up all night everything will ied up.” T {ERE was an angry buzz from he switchboard and a tiny white bulb glowed. Byers scurried across the room and adjusted the earpiece, flinzing a glance at the clock as he slid into the chair. It was two min- utes to nine. e teenth,” he spoke into the came the reply. orders.” Then he Sergeant Lewis settled down with the paper. filed out, donning gloves and set- tling their nightsticks fn holsters. The “long shift” was going on duty. Among them was one destined never to return. Sergeant Lewis returned to the “office” and settled down with the evening paper. For several hours the men on patrol duty rang up from the street boxes, and “Sad Sam” Byers, who was on switchboard duty, laconically reported “0.K., Sergeant,” each time the round of calls was completed. A drowsy quiet settled over the Fourteenth Precinct Station, a gray stone building at the extreme end of Woodbine Avenue, just a matter of ten minutes’ walk from the county line. Sergeant Lewis sat behind the railing at the raised “charge” desk. Tiring of the paper, with its midwin- ter dearth of sports news, he turned a ruminating eye toward the win- dows and with stolid calm watched the pounding and spattering on the panes. ~ VER in his corner Byers had dis- carded the telephone headpiece while he indulged in a game of pino- chle with Officer Connally. They played with silent concentration, the only sound emanating from their| game being the sharp slap and rif. fling of the cards. Lewis sat down again. He stared at the calendar pad on the opposite wall. Its bold, black markings pro claimed that this was Tuesday, Jan- uary tenth. He rustled his newspaper impa tiently. He hated prolonged silences. Small talk was as necessary to him as meat and bread. So, when Clymer turned out the papers from his ma- chine and deftly sifted out the car bon sheets, Lewis pounced on the opportunity. “Say, Clymer, did you ever hear of a Thirteenth Precinct? This is the Fourteenth and Butler’s got the Twelfth, but where's the |.mluckyl number?” The typist leaned back in his chair and considered the guestion Finally, he shook his head. “I never heard c it,” he admitted. Lewis rubbed his chin. “I guess| the fellows who laid out the Pre cincts were superstitious.” The Sergeant flicked over the one, now that you mention | dropped the crisp, official tone. “Don’t get your feet wet, Morrie,” he called, “and listen—we haven't a thing on the blotter. Can’t you fel lows give us a little action?” “Nothing doing tonight,” ecame back the answer. “You're lucky to be inside. It's cold as hell,” was Offi cer 1638's forceful, if somewhat mixed, metaphor. Byers placed a check mark after Morris’s name on the list posted at bis elbow. For the next few min utes the little 1ights continued to flash and at the conclusion of each report Byers checked the name of the patrolman. With some he ex- changed brief, bantering remarks, but always cut out swiftly to keep the line open. “Sergeant, no report from 1645— Hamill” There was a note of sur- prise in Byers’ voice. Lewis frowned. It was eleven min- utes past the hour. Connally with- drew his attention from the cards for a moment. “Perhaps he's coming in with something,” he suggested, hopefully. “Whether he s, or isn't, we'll be hearing from him shortly,” was the Sergeant’s opinion. Byers kept his earpiece clamped on and amused | himself drawing curlicues on a plece | of paper. At nine-twenty he glanced from the clock to Sergeant Lewls, still turning pages. | A moment later the outer door | banged and every one looked in that direction, expecting to see the re- miss Hamill, Officer 1645, come | stamping in from the hall. Instead, { a enow-plastered and storm-buffeted | figure appeared, hunched and muf- fled beyond recognition. It was not | until the man had shaken off most of | the clinging snow that plastered his tront, unwound a muffler and re- moved his hat that Lewis recognized | the newcomer. It was Howard | “Sheriff” Doyle, the special crime | reporter for the Daily Ledger. Doyle treated the Sergeant to & | quasi-military salute. He hung his hat and overcoat on a hook. “How- dy, Sergeant. Howdy, boys,” was his breezy salutation. “Seen anything of Detective Barry up here tonight? | Or Steve Harper?” | (Copyright. 1934, by Walter C. Brown! Tomorrow, Harper clash. and Doyle FOR STOVES The Whiie Ray Oil Burner AND RANGES Will positively burn oil with a clean white flame. Absolutely no soot. See This Burner In Operation Harri Machine s...sahu?a? Plumbing Heating Old Papers for Sale at Empire Office oo 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire it o S} A number of people were inter- ested in the tangle over the owner- ship of the 14-acre tract claimed as a mineral location by John Seatter, deceased, and situated adjacent to Zvergreen Cemetery and the Irwin addition. Mr. Seatter, who had died a year previously, had left no will, though previous to his death he had a mineral location on the ground and had deeded one-half ¢ to Lloyd Hill. Others who located in the vicinity were D. Garfield, B. D. Blakeslee, H. Butters, F. W. Butters, L. E. Pray, E. B. Beliel, Charles Quack- enbush, L. A. Green, H. F. Cain, C. S. Green, Gudman Jensen, A. s, A. Flemming and Guy C. Wing. The tangle was puzzling attorneys. Harry A. Bishop had become United States Marshal of the Pirst Judicial Division at 5 o'clock the previous afternoon, as the result of an emergency appointment made by Judge R. W. Jennings, acting upon instruetions from the Attor- ney-General. Mr. Bishop was to hold office under this order until the action of the Senate regarding the nomination to the ofice by the President. M. V. Manville and Forrest Gard- ‘ ner were severely shocked while stretching a metal surveyor's tape | during the progress of some survey | work being done by F. Williamson | in Gold Creek near the old skating vond. A high tension cable carry- ing a voltage of 22,000 was brought | in contact with the metal tape the men were carrying. Manville was | shocked into insensibility and re- | mained unconscious for ten minutes | shocked and Williamson, who was | not touching the tape, also felt the shock. | i Weather for the previous 24 hours was partly cloudy with a maximum temperature of 61 de- grees and a minimum of 36. | closed up shop during the day lo{‘ allow employees and managers of | those institutions to attend the op- | ening basbeall game of the 1914 | season. Mayor John Reck claimed | the privilage of throwing the first ball and at press time, the Doug- las - Treadwell and Juneau - Gas- | honor of the first victory in the | Channel series. FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GAS I OILS GREASES Juneau Motors FUOT OF MAIN ST. BETTY MAC BEAUTY SHOP 107 Assembly Apartments PHONE 547 while Gardner was also severely !~ Business houses in Juneau had | tineau teams were battling for the | &> | — i 2 PROFESSIONAL Helene W. L. Albrecht l’flYS!OTlIERAP’Y Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 Rose A. Ardrews Graduate Nurse Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas sage, Colonic Irrigations oOffice hours 11 a.m. to 5 pm. | Evenings by Appointment Second and Main Phone 259 e — e ' E. B, WILSON _ | Chiropodist—Foot Specialist 401 Goldstein Building PHONE 496 Y DRS. KASER & FRFEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building | PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to ® pm. | = i Dr, C. P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 8 Valentine Building | Telephone 16 i = -5 — Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Blig. OfZice nours, § am. to § pm. &venings by appointment, | Phone 321 i b Robert Siwipson Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and | Monday at 7:30 p. m. i Our trucks go any place any I Opthalmology on file | Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground G ) i P S Ry 4 Fraternal Societies | OF ¢ Gastineau Channel B. P. 0. ELKS meets, every Wednesdoy A 8 p.m Visiting brothers welcome. L. W. Turoff, Sxalt- ed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary. KNICHATS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council Mo. 1780, Meetings second and iast Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Counecil Chambers, Ffth Strevt. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Becretary —_— ! MOUNT JUNEAD LODGE NO. 14t |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. Douglas Aerie 117 F. O. E. Meets first and third Mondays 8 p.m., Eagles’ Hall, Douglas. Visiting brothers welcome. R. A. Schmidt, W. P, Guy L. Smith, Sec g 5 time, A tank for Diesel Oil and a tank for crude oil save burner trouble. PHONE 149; NIGHT 148 RELIABLE TRANSFER NOW OPEN | Commercial Adjust- | ] ! 4 ) . | ment& Rating Bureau Cooperating with White Service Bureau 1l Room 1—Shattuck Bldg. I We have 5,000 local ratings | DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 7, Valentine Bldg. Office Phone 484; Residence | Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 | e-— " Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building Phone 481 e ——— L1 — Dr. A. W. Stewart | DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 pm, SEWARD BUILDING | Office Phone 409, Res. Phone 276 TOTEM MARKET Groceries—Produce—Fresh and Smoked Meats | WILLOUGHBY AVENUE | CASH AND CARRY | e LRy PAINTS—OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE |, Thomas Hardware Co. [ — Mining Location Noiices at Em- pire office. 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