The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 13, 1934, Page 4

1 i . hearts and thought of the people has failed THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1934. Daily_Alaska Empire V\DER - - GENERAL MANAGER eyening except Sunday by _the PANY at Second and Main s Second Cl SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 27 ln Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 Dellvered by carrier In Juneay By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year in_advance, $12.00 onth, in s will confer a \I\H.«s~'0l| 2 3 of_their papers. % for Editorial and Business Offices, 374 six months, in advance, 1.2 28 avor if they will promptly failure or ‘firregular phone R OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. \"wEME'EA Press is exclu; ¢ entitled to the ation of all news dispatches credited to it or > credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER| THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION The use TRY AND SCIENCE. INDU The bringing by President Roosevelt of men of the Government has been science into the service of derisively and critically hailed in some quarters, and most of the attacks on his Administration are specifically directed at the socalled “prain trusters.” Yet business learned years ago that the surest road to success lay in following the guidance of science, Only a few days ago there was held in the Chicago Fair Forum a meeting called by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. | head of General Motors, of some 300 business lead- | ers and scientists, a meeting in which neither de- featism nor the doctrine of limitation in an age of plenty had place. The sessions radiated hope for the future. Scientific progress, he said, has only begun; civilization is still young; initiative is not dying; higher standards of living are the sure promise of technological progress. Among the possible achievements of the future are airplanes with automatic piloting and landing control from the ground, stream-lined electrified trains running at 200 miles an hour, synthetic resins replacing woods and metals, cheap power through high voltage and direct electric transmission, and the complete disappearance of drudgery from the home. Perhaps more heartening than these reasonable predictions of continued progress was the manifest awareness of the inevitability of change and the need of adjusting our methods in an evolving social order. Nothing here about hanging onto the old merely because it is old, nor of rejecting the new because it is new. With that in mihd, M. H. Aylesworth urged a revitalizing of the schools and the reorganization of universities and research insti- tutes to keep tab on the social and economic effects. At present, social research workers speak too late They wait until the old social arrangements are upset, “and then come along as a wrecking crew to clean up after the catastrophe.” To make the proper adjustments in time would prevent the worst features of recurrent ups and downs of business. Science no longer stands aloof from the practical world. It is the handmaiden of business. It ought to be equally the servant of the public. That is why optimism is altogether reasonable. “The best the last of life, for which the first was made.” Every invention opens the way to still more inventions, for, as the base of knowledge widens and deepens, an ever-greater structure can be built upon it. The need of social improvement is so great that there will be more than enough to keep us busy in the years to come. is yet to be, FOSSIL TREES LIKE PRESENT ONES. Trees which grew in the Miocene epoch of geo- logical time some 11,000,000 years ago had essen- tially the same composition as the trees of today, say Dr. R. L. Mitchell and George J. Ritter, of the University of Michigan, in a report to the American Chemical Society. The fossil wood which revealed how little evolu- tion has occurred in the plant kingdom was dis- covered 200 feet underground during mining opera- tlons at Placerville, Calif,, embedded in the Miocene gold-bearing sands. It is one of the puzzles of ence why some trees of such ancient origin turn to coal or oil they have in Pennsylvania and others change to stone as in the far West. For practical utilization, the oil and coal trans- formation means the most to the civilization of the United States. For scientific studies, however, the transformation of a tree drops of oil ruins any form or structure. The remarkable preservation of the California trees is accounted for, in part, by the complete free- dom of their cells from decay fungus. This would be possible if they were buried while thoroughly wet. The chang found in the wood were a slight dogree of petrification—the turning to stone—some crushing and a pronounced decrease in the soluble materials, cellulose and fibrous substance. In no case .did the. wood become coal-like or otherwise unrecognizable in its characteristics. Redwood, pine and cedar of Lebanon were included in the scien- tists’ studies. or a plant into several chance of investigating the THE BOOK. The Bible has passed through, and survived, many such new-old material and spiritual crises as the present. There is no reason for believing that it will not continue to do so. During 1933 there was a distribution of 7,800,766 Bibles, printed in 155 languages and dialects in more than 40 countries. Even in Japan the circulation was larger than ever before, as it was in stricken and troubled China. The circulation was also greater in the United States. Nine hunded and forty tongues now know the Scriptures. Modern scientific invention has helped spread abroad the teachings of the Book. The ef- fort in some couniries to banish religion from the Con- ceptions of morality and right, as taught in the grow brighter and stronger All this is related by the annual report of the Bible Society. Notwithstanding a rather indifference, or actual antagon- " |land of initiative and liberty. And now | hunter has shot the big bad wolf near that city. | A Reasonable Law. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) In its ‘final form the stock market regulation bill is sound in its essential provisions. While holding out the promise of an effective curb on security trading abuses, it does not contain the | commission lism, to the ancient records, mankind in the mass, seemhs to cling to something that holds forth the promise of a fuller and richer life here on earth and |in the veiled environment of an immortal After- | while. The feeling is inherent. It has carried the |race through vicissitudes more alarming and de- pressive than any we know, or have known in this Some one has suggested that Al Capone and | John Dillinger should get together. Maybe it would 1be a good idea as that—in Capone’s present Atlanta | residence. Seems like everytime the Chamber of Commerce | renews its agitation for a street sprinkler, J. Pluvius l&larls his up again. Maybe we'd better forget tbout “th matter for a while. comes .word from Ketchikan that a original sections which tended to penalize the honest | business man. Vesting regulatory power in a special to be appointed by the President, the bill gives ample power to require financial reports from corporations having listed securities, and like- | wise provides stringent methods of thwarting the manipulation of stocks. The margin requirements are very flexible and will be adequate only if en- forced wisely and firmly by the commission. MOCKI SYNOPSIS: has proved to his own satisfaction that the policeman and the stranger found dead in_Pierre Dufresne's house were murdered, and did not Fill each other. He believes one of the guns used ts i e Nokse. bugs Sergeant Harper when he fails to find it. Dufre Vidicules him. Now he and Deteos tive Lafferty are searching the room in which the Dufresne houses hold was locked up while the res mainder of the big house was searched. Chapter 28 WET STRING "\YO LUCK, Steve,” Lafferty re- ported, finished with his part of the search. “What've you vo* there?” “Just a length of twine,” Lafferty answered, “l picked it off the door, near the window-seat.” “The window-seat? That's where | Dufresne and Macklin were sitting. Let’s have a look at ft.” Lafferty handed it over, with a chuckle. “Big clue?” he chaffed. But Harper was paying little at- tention to his assistant’s joking. He roughly estimated the length of the twine at about twelve feet. “Du- fresne has been wearing that loung- ing robe all morning,” he mused. “It Perhaps the most encouraging feature of the law is the rider attached at the last moment in the | Senate, which revises the securities law of last year. 1 This provision eliminates the excessively sevexe, penalties imposed on officers of corporations for | losses suffered by investors in the stock of their cor- | porations. It is desirable that every incentive shcmld} be offered to induce borrowers of industrial capit.al; to deal honestly with investors. But the securities law in its original form went much farther than this, and exposed the careful business man to liability for losses beyond his control. Since there is nothing in the stock market bill to handicap legitimate business enterprise, and since the revision of the securities law encourages the flow of investment funds into industry, there is every reason to believe that the net effect of the new legislation will be to stimulate ecoonmic activity. Probably th2 regulation of security trading will | prevent the return of a joyous bull market. This ! should not be regarded as a damper on business, | but a wholesome measure of restraint. We want a lasting recovery based on true values, not a specu- | lative recov engendered by reckless gambling. Any recovery, of course, is in part speculative. ! Only the willingness of investors to put money | into business enterprise, and the parallel willing- | ness of enterprisers to borrow and take risks., will | provide the volume of business needed. The reason- ablé character of the stock exchange regulation measure and sensible revision of the securities act | hold promise of reviving that flow of investment funds. The CCC. (Seward Gateway.) | The CCC went into operation so quietly that many have almost forgotten its existence, yet it is the greatest movement of men from place to place | that has taken place within a generation, the activities of the World War not excepted. Few realize the worth of the CCC to Alaska last summer or what this force will accomplish this season. Since strict army discipline was not applicable, there were problems to be worked out in the way | of preserving order, but by a system of rewards, | and by getting rid of chronic trouble-makers, things soon were running smoothly. Here, in the Chugach National Forest, a great deal has been done. The woods have been thinned | out, so that selected and hardy trees may have a chance to grow. Firebreaks have been constructed, | and sweeping conflagrations in the woods will be easier to control. Roads have been built, enabling perfect policing of the public domain, as well as providing ingress and egress to isolated regions of this district. To some extent, soil erosion has been checked. Some tree-planting has been accomplished. Those who think that the only good accom- plished by the CCC was to provide employment and keep the idle out of mischief, are mistaken. | The security of the natural resources has been promoted and those revenues will increase accord- ing to value. Merely a Philosophical Interrogatory. | (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) | Philosophic Bertrand Russell propounded an interrogatory not long ago that started argumenta- tive tongues moving with exceptional yigor. Truth | seekers in crossroads stores and in busy business offices are still answering Mr. Russell's question to their own satisfaction, but not to that of their disputatious opponents. Some say the question can't be answered. Here it is: There is a barber living in a certain village. The barber does not shave anyone outside this | particular village, but he shaves every man in the village who does not shave himself, and only those who do not shave themselves. Now, the question | is, does the barber shave himself? If you answer that the barber does shave him- self, then you must be wrong, because those the barber shaves do not shave themselves. If, on the other hand, you contend that the barber does not shave himself, because he shaves those who do not | shave themselves, then you are up against the | difficult fact that he is himself and of necessity must shave himself. It is like answering the question: Could God, if He chose, make two hills without a valley? That must have been a disappointed father out in Detroit who photographed his first baby three minutes after if was born, when he developed the plate. As we ufiderstand it, red photographs black. | and picked up before this, could have fallen from his pocket.” He ran the tough cord through his fingers. “It feels wet here in the center, Jack.” NG HOUSE BY WAI.TER C. BROWN. ing np and down, head bent, eyes on the floor, hands thrust deep into his pockets. Harper moved on quietly, smiling to himself as he unlocked the door to the breakfast-room. He bad no doubt but that the master of the house had missed the piece of twine and was searching for it. It was getting on toward noon and Harper shut the door of the breakfast-room behind him and sat down at his work-table to re-arrange his plans in accordance with the vital changes the last few hours had ! made in the case. The case had now been in Har- per’s hands for something like four- teen hours and he bad no need to apologize for the progress made. There was not the slightest doubt in his mind that some one still pres- ent in this house had planned and executed this whole scheme. The difficulty would arise in linking one | of them to the facts so long as the identity of ths masquerader re- mained unrevealed. It was impos- sible to assign a motive out of their | slender knowledge. At least four of the eight persons in the Dufresne household were un- der direct suspicion in Harper's mind. He was mulling over these various personalities, as they had | revealed themselves to his obsarva- when tion under different vhases, Harper glanced into the drawing room. Lafferty was still smiling. “You don't even know that any one| dropped it. It might have been there before we came to this room at all.” “Then it would have been noticed ,” Harper argued. “Look at it this way. Assume | that Dufresne took the gun and hid it. We know it’s still in the house, for no one has gone out even as far as the garage. Whoever took it had to plant it, and quickly, in a place where it would be hidden not only from us, but from «very one else in the house. “Where could it be hidden so quickly and so safely? There was no time to prepare a special place nor to go out and bury it in the grounds.” “Well, one could open a window and heave it out as far as possible. Or, there may be a little sliding panel somewhere in good old melodrama style.” ARPER nodded. “Laugh if you will but there’s always the pos- | sibliity of a secret cupboard some- where. Four yards of twine—how was it used?” “Well, I've heard of things being hung behind shutters and outside | window sills and inside chimneys, but in that case we wouldn't have the string.” “Yes, and it's wet in the middle. That suggests contact with water— or snow!” “We've looked around outside and we've been up in the little cupola. he was interrupted by a sharp knock on the door. BRISK young man wearing a £ gray overcoat and hat entered, and, behind him, a short, dark- skinned man bundled up in a heavy fur coat. “I'm Harris, of the Cen- tral Bureau,” said the young man, saluting. “Detective Lafferty sent me out to trace that disguise. This is Mr. Pagliotti, who has a theat- rica supply house on Twelfth Street. He can identify the beard and the man who bought it.” Harris handed over a tissue- wrapped package, inside of which were the beard and goatee as well as Jackson's photographs of the dead man. Harper turned to the plump Ital- lan, *“Can you identify these as hav- ing come from your stock?” “Yes, sir. We make everything in our own workrooms and I'd know our, goods anywhera. The finest workmanship, sir.” Pagliotti spoke with very little accent, his bearing confident, his black eyes agleam with intelligent curiosity. Harper held up one of the pie- tures, “Is this the man who made, the purchase?” “Yes, sir. I remember him dis- tinetly.” “When was the purchase made?” “Your man asked me that. I re plied, early in October.” “October?” exclaimed Harper, half rising in his chair. *“October,” Pagliotti repeated. *“I recalled that it had been some time ‘before our Hallowe’en rush. We There’s not a single mark in the snow on the roof.” Harper was deep in thought. “I'm sure the gun is hidden, not just thrown away to get rid of it. Sup- pose you call at the neighboring houses and find out if anything un- usual was heard or seen last night. In the meantime I'll try to squeeze a little information from the ser- vants.” The detective folded the piece of twine and put it away in his vest pocket. Lafferty set out on his \ quest, Harper going as far as the front door with him. Then, a8 he | returned along the hall, he glanced | into the drawing-room in passing and was surprised to see Dufresne, still wearing his lounging robe, pae- (Philadelphia Ingquirer.) Persons who complain of the taste of Postmaster- General Farley’s mucilage cannot reasonably expect a dish of chocolate ice cream on the back of every postage stamp.—(Chicago News.) Senator Fess, of Ohio, made a four-hour speech in opposition to the tariff bargaining bill, and“ made just as many converts as if he had talked | four minutes.—(Boston Globe.) Because they say that the cult business the Oklahoma Laundry tion is ripping nudism up News.) menaces Owners' the its Associa- back.—(Detroit The man from Mars would be puzzled by the American philosophy of hunting for a job so that la strike can be called.—(Detroit Free Press.) keap a record of all cash sales, as this one was, so I looked up the original slip. Here it is.” The Italian proudly produced a cash sales voucher, The date was October tenth, just three months to the day before the masquerader met his death while wearing this pur- chase. - Here was a vital fact that was at variance with all other known features of the case. “Are you quite sure about all this?” “1 am.positive,” replied Pagliotti, promptly. “There is more to be told, an incident that fixed itself in my memory.” Mr. Pagilotti gives Harper more impertant information to- mCrTow. IDEAL PAINT SHOP PHONE 549 i I E If It's Paint ! We Have It! Wendt & Garster FOR INSURANCE Telephone 409 B. M. Behrends Bank Bldg. § ) § See H. R. SHEPARD & SON t ) MMWM Old Papers for Sale at Empire Office From The Empire { SOV ) JUNE 13, 1914, Senator Henry Roden, reported at Seward the latter part of March to Iditarod, was miss- according word received from Fairbanks. T. L. Thurston arriving at Fairbanks, said that Roden had never reached Iditarod However, no fears were felt in ' Juneau as the last steamer from the Westward had brought a let- ter from Senator Roden, dated at Lake Clark, inland from Illiamna |He stated that he was well, but |stalled by high water, and intend- jed to go over the trail to the Kus- kokwim and up that stream Tditarod as soon as able to on his way ing, to to !‘ Mrs. 8. C. Orchard was a pas- | senger on the Admiral Sampson on |her way from Ketchikan to Val- dez. | Invitations were out for the | Elks’ dance that was to take place Ims following Monday evening | Two invitations were allowed e mmber for distribution friends. The big hall was beinz | specially decorated for the dance and also for the flag day cere-' mony to take place on Sunday. S. H. Hellenthal and his fam-| ily returned to their home in Juneau on the City of Seattle af- iter a visit of two months in the | States. Mr. and Mrs. Hellenthal Ivkem East as far as Grand Rapids| | Michigan, where they visited Mr. | | Hellenthal's mother. They Rl\o | visited Mrs. Hellenthal's family fll‘ is' Paul. A call had been issued for a! Democratic Territorial convention | to be held at Skagway, on Mon- day, August 3rd, 1914 at 10 o'clock |in the morning, for the purpose, | of nominating a candidate for| Delegate to Congress and elect | nine members of the next Terri- | torial Committee and transact | other business. | | At the second preliminary meet| held by the Juneau Gun Club, | some good scores were made in ‘the clay pigeon shooting. Albert- son made a perfect score in one of the contests while Gemmett| twice got eight out of ten and | Gemmett and Shattuck each got| {four out of five. The club was| to meet in the evening at the C. W. Young store to perfect its or- ganization. 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