The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 23, 1936, Page 4

f , mation, this time quoted from theé Wall Street Journal, | that the senator gram of the President, he failed to tell how reduction of cotton acreage could possibly accomplish that result. And what are the facts? Cotton warehouses -bulge with almost a year’s supply of cotton. And. according to the records of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the privately conducted National Industrial Conference Board and the American Federation of Labor, the total number of employees of every grade and classification in the manufacture of textiles and textile products | was 1,707,900 in the boom year of 1929. The number | dropped to 1,250,300 in the last Hoover year of 1932 and ' |had increased to 1,500,000 last month | Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - Editor and Manager| unday by _the nd and Main ery evenir xcep TING COMPANY Algska e Post Office in Juneau as Second Class SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per _month s t o fhePkularity | But, these figures in each instance included the | number of employed, not only in the cotton textile and |allied trade, as energetically emphasized by smawr} ) the | Dickinson. They included the number employed in | ted | the manufacture of all textile fabrics, not cotton alone Business Office, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is ex v republicatios LarGER |from the daintiest imaginable and unmentionable ap- | | parel to the mammoth carpets on the banquel room | tloor. | Continued disregard by Old Guard spokesmen for | RANTEED Y OTHER PL TO BLICATI BE but also silk, wool and rayon and all their products |’ HAPPY—==—_ —BIRTHDAY | The Empire extends congratula- gtians and best wishes today, their Uirthday anniversary, <2 the follo:i- (ing: JANUARY 23. Oscar G. Olson F. Joseph Waite Edward T. McNulty William R. Bayers PR 20 L o f From The Empire % fg 20 YEARS AGO | et b s e ed | the truth will indeed “arouse the people” to an appre- ciation of the utter insincerity of blinding partisan | | critics of President Roosevelt’s carefully balanced re-! | covery program, and possibly even “to. the zealous fer- vor of a crusade.” That happened in 1932 against the same element that is now arrogantly demanding a return to power The Buck-Passers | (New York World-Telegram) In certain European circles they did not let the echo die on the President’s neutrality message to Con- gress before they fell to bemoaning the effect American ; {policy would have on the Italo-Ethiopian situation. | The impression in London, according to dispatches, |is that it is little further use now for the League of ALASKA GIRL GOOD-WILL AMBASSADORS The better business drive, or “Better Times” contest | g iong g4 try to embargo oil and similar key materia's | as it is officially known, being sponsored by Juneau|to Ttaly if the United States, as indicated, intends to merchants anda The Empire should give a decided im- |keep on doing “business as usual” with Il Duce. If we wished to be nasty we might reply that | Britain and the League first shied away from the | {oil embargo and made its further application extreme- |1y problematical. The British ‘stand is just transparent | buck-passing. Washington embargoed munitions ahead of Britain and the League, and in many other respects has gone | further than the League to discourage the Italian ven- i Old accounts should be cleaned up and new trans-|tyre in Africa. At one time the administration stood | actions stepped up for credit is given on both toward |ready to exert its influence on the oil companies to cut sending the buyer’s favorite candidate on-a trip to the |off shipments to the belligerents. Pacific Coast states and Mexico. L But the League did not go ahead. Why it did not |is now known to the entire world. British For And properly exploited such a jaunt Will bring |yycter sir gamuel Hoare, if not the British govern- | invaluable publicity to Juneau and all of Alaska, IOX‘Y‘nm" as a whole, became convinced that oil sanctions the trip will be made just at the start of the tourist | meant war with Italy, so the League, led by Britain season, when the thoughts of those in the states are |backed down. | turning toward vacations. Actually, the Juneau win- | Since then the oil issue has been postponed again | ners can be good-will ambassadors for the North just as|and again. Today few believe an embargo will ever be the girls from Oregon, Washington and California will | imPosed—at least not before Mussolini has acquired an 4 e Sl |ample supply. be spreading the appeal of their home towns. | The impression given out in London, therefore, that Here, it strikes us, is a golden opportunity for the| smerica’s new neutrality policy cripples sanctions and Chamber of Commerce or some other civic body to get|jmpedes the work of the League of Nations is both back of a promotion enterprise that is assured to bring | dishonest and shabby. returns. Last year there were 30,000 tourists Whether the Roosevelt administration intended it brought to Alaska, one of the best seasons in years,|Or not, its neutrality stand is precisely what Britain as the result of exploitation by transportation com-|and the League have been asking for ever since the I y s ¥ s 4 athere | United States refused to become a member. panies, chambers of commerce, newspapers, and others. All along Britain has led in suggesting that America | These girls carrying the message of Alaska down the | oo 5 o poaition. Agsin stid again, When the qm\," coast will travel over the natural tourist route of the|ion of sanctions was before the League, Britain has west—the Pacific Coast. Thousands of persons irom | dodged the issue. Before she could pledge the use of the east and middle west in California and other points | her fleet in a possible League blockade, she contends. on the Coast can hear their story of the Northland. she would first have to kmow the United States policy It well may be the deciding point for scores who need| NOW Britain knows. She has all the assurance she Sust a little more Alaska atmosphere to start them on |0l reasonably demand. If Britain uses her flect B Bimmer's ok to s TN tory] as the League’s instrument to punish an aggressor A " nation to fear from this Already Washington State has placed $36,000 with country. the Western Agencies, Inc., in Seattle to be used this| Indeed, there is nothing to indicate at this moment coming season to contact tourists visiting California | that the United States would not add o1l to its list of | and induce them to return via the state of Washington. | contraband should the League belatedly do likewise. Why not induce them further to visit Alaska also when | The neutrality bills now in Congress aim in that di- to business here and have a favorable trend ughout the Territory. With the virtually solid support of the merchants, which it is receiving, buying at should be | noticeably increased, and buying in Jureau, as every one knows, is the thing that will make .i.e city prosper. home some there is nothing for her they are in Washington? rection. . | And it must not be forgotten that these contest| 17 Aany event, before Britain and other Leaguc | members become to free with their criticism they winners will be Alaskans. That alone to those on the | yemgelves should come clean, Lét them go ahead with Outside means a great deal. There is a glamor and |ganctions. Let them embargo oil and other key romance about the north, especially to those unfamiliar | commodities. Then, if the League fails because the with it, that leads to a persistent longing to see it. What | United States nullifies its efforts, their condemnation a glamorous Alaska message these girl good-will Am- |may be justified. But meanwhile let them stop their bassadors can carry to the world! |Machiavellian attempts to shift responsibility from i | where it belongs. DICKINSON, THE CRUSADER 1 Loans To Belligerents When the New York Journal of Commerce devotes two columns to a laudatory report of a speech by a senator from Towa that is news. Except for the expla (Cincinnati Enquirer) The calling of J. P. Morgan and other financiers - | before a Senate committee to learn about World War | finances does not provide the exciting drama of twv” “eaustic criticism of the Roosevelt |years ago, when some of the same financial leaders | Administration was applauded to the echo by an audi- | were called to tell of stock market practices. The Gov- ence comprising high executives of the country’s larg- | ernment’s intention was more or less punitive in the | est banks, public utilities, railroads and industrial cor- | earlier instances, as the information was sought as the poratior \groundv\;ork ior a ic\vre]rcgulatury law. ]Now lh: % 2 g : | Senate is trying to learn how much effect loans an The orator was Senator L. J. Dickinson, Old Guard 3 credits to the Allied Powers had upon our decision to | keynoter for Mr. Hoover at the Republican national | enter the war. There is no implication that punitive convention of 1932. The occasion was the 167th annual | legislation will follow. banquet of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of The Senate Committee’'s new quest is a valid and New York. Subject of discourse: “A warning that a |important onehowever. There has been a good deal crisis faces the United States more menacing than any |0f careless thinking with respect to the influence of since the Civil War.” A sizable title but a mscnurso‘:“l‘:lt’; “:“‘:C‘glng;“:‘b;‘z‘;‘v“’:‘; r‘_"“‘:"z ""m"r‘" “"L‘:;y T : ;: z . |into the war. y America had a large stake | replev.e Wil appropiisialy he“-l‘(fl‘l(ln[z SN, !as a nation in the success of the Allies by the beginning | To achieve victory,” doslared Senator Dickinson, |or 1917, And undoubtedly this had some influence on “the people simply must be aroused to the zealous|the eventual decision to send troops to France. But | fervor of a crusade. There must be brave and unselfish | to concede this is not very helpful. leadership of a high order to oppose the trend of How much influence did the loans and credits of near communism. Everywhere,” he assured his audi- American bankers to the French and British Goveirn- ence, “men sense that the constitution itself is in peril, | Ments have in building up pro-Ally sentiment along » The blunt truth is thgt the nation is now faced with | the Eastern seaboara? | a fringe of bottles around the stoves | ’weather did not change for the JANUARY 23, 1916 With the moderation of the high winds, Juneau people are beginning to stir about ain. Plumbers are till busy night and day and the Juneau Firemen stayed on duty over the week-end. Only one alarm, a call to a chimney angle Bar, was turned that time. in during Many a person yesterday who “took his pen in hand” found tof his amazement that the ink in the bottle refused to work, and they re- sorted to the use of a pencil or| thawed the liquid. Even in the| stores large quart cans of ink hayo‘ frozen and the merchants placed for the thawing out process. Tom Shearer, of Douglas, who| | has been in the hospital for the|maq past 10 days, left for his home. There were no sessions today cli the United States District Court.; Judge Robert W. Jennings announc- ed that tomorrow, provided the worse, the regular sessions would | be resumed at 10 o'clock. The Alaska - Gastineau Mining Company is at present assisting the Alaska Electric Light & Power Com- pany in supplying its quota [mm; the Salmon Creek plant. Gowey Shepard, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Shepard of Juneau, has been appointed superintendent of | the It mine near Ketchikan. He| is only 21 years of age and is prob- ably the youngest mine superin- tendent in the north. Unable to buck the strong head winds, the mail steamer Georgia was forced to abandon the regular trip to Sitka and returned to Ju- neau after having been out five days endeavoring to sneak around Point Retreat during a lull in the| | wind, i Sam Guyot, representative of Fisher Bros., was a passenger to Juneau on the Jefferson Weather: Maximum, 3; minimum, 10 below. Clear. — .- ) HOOT MON! “Bobbie” Burns Anniversary Birthday Ball at Elks' Hall Satur- day night. Auspices Juneau Wom- en's Club. FOSS CONSTRUCTION CO. fire in the Tri-y, widely disci Horoscope “The stars Zacline but do not compel” This is an uncertain day, accord- ing to astrology. In the morning hours adverse aspects rule and la- ter planetary influences tend to overcome sinister signs. | In business circles uncertainty 'due to possible legislation or inter- national complications may retard progress, but the stars seem to pre- sage for the United States great advancement as a world power. Accidents on the high seas may be more numerous than usual and the air service may be impaired as winter weather develops many vag- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 1936. aries. Success for winter fairs and’ for games of many sorts is fore-| cast. Ice sports will gain popular-! ity while skating particularly will| be unusually fashionable. { backs for persons who wield! 12l influence are foretold, f()l“ bitter hostilities affecting public | men will multiply. New political nments will affect many states November and scandals will be publicized | Waste of public moneys in var-| ious places will be uncovered and confidence in the wise administra- tion of relief will be dissipated, it| is foretold e seers stress the fact that 1 times make bad manners that, effect even the best characters. | They countenance kindly judgment and piul efforts. Blizzards in the East and heavy; rains in the South and West are prognosticated. Loss of livestock be hea’ Food costs will be nati: hel ed. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of mo- mentous experiences and important decisions. The counsel of elders will be helpful. i Children born on this day prob- ably will be temperamental and highstrung but exceedingly gifted. Subjects of this sign gain fame through intellectual superiority. John M. Thayer, onetime Gover- nor of Nebraska, was born on this day 1820. Others who have cele- brated it as a birthday include Hen- ry Bernard, educator and reformer, 1811; Charles James Fox, British statesman, 1949 (Copyright, 1836) — e SHOP IN JUNEAU, FIRST! JUNEAU GETS RID OF CORNS In the past three weeks thou- sands of Juneau men and women have ended their corn and callous troubles with END-O-CORN. No matter how many so-called corn cures” you have tried, if you §tm have your corns go to the Butler-Mauro Drug Co. and get END-O-CORN. Use tonight, to- morrow all right. It cannot fail. How many times have you said, “I'd give $10 to get rid of that | pesky corn”? END-O-CORN is worth $50 but it only costs fifty cents. adv. b 25| | STRATTON & BEERS | | MUNICIPAL ENGINEERS SURVEYORS | [ | ! | | . VALENTINE BLDG. | | Telephone 502 | LL COLE FOR OIL! i Phone 107 Juneau f VAl SHL Crrrrr e “.,7 S5 >.7,V ,W, SPECIALIZING in French and Italian z ) Dinners Gastineau Cafe Short Orders at All Hours e GARLAND BOGGAN Hardwood Floors || Waxing Polishing 1 ! Sandil;é \ 34 plus or 27 gravity, in any amount . . . QUICK! | COLE TRANSFER || | Phone 3441 or Night 1803 If It's Paint We Have It! | FRED W. WENDT |l PHONE 549 IDEAL PAINT SHOP i | | | “THE REXALL >IORL” Reliable pharmacists compound | How much would the same bankers and exporters fresh problems even more serious than those which have done for Germany if Great Britain had not com- arose out of the depression itself. manded the sea approaches to Central Europe? Was What could be more serious? The senator, whose | there any actual pressure from banking and mercan- personally conducted Presidential campaign has been |tile interests upon the American Government? confined to statées other "than Iowa, hastened to explain: we can frame a well-conceived neutrality law, including “The balancing of the national budget, of course, ® sound provision on loans to belligerents. The Senate hearing doubtless will throw some light on these ques- S| effec e earl nt. Prof-} - iy De clforiaf at Ko eqrliest DOMEDISANAMBL PIOE- e, Bt when all 1eill A do: i Sesficaaible ligate spending of the nation's accumulated resources for drafting and revising the new law will have to do must stop. Industry must be revived by a return to|a good deal of guessing. For the main question is one sound principles of taxation.” | that could not be answered with a clear-cut yes or no After the manner of Messrs. Hoover, Mills, Knox | _— and other aspirapts for the GOP nomination, Senator | Dickinson used none but imaginary statistics in pre- |in to say that so far as he can learn there is no au- dicting the doom of commerce, industry and agriculture | &‘;:;::' ;_"e‘;g;‘:fl‘:‘)‘ha toad seating itself on a toadstool.— under the Roosevelt Administration. For example, in 4 commiserating with gentlemen present whose corpora- The Premier of Alberta who went into office after tions had just declared the highest dividends since |;yomising $25 a month to all the grown folks is having | He can'’t find the money.—Dallas News. | 1930, this eminent enemy of the AAA expressed |a hard time. righteous indignation that “More than 2,000,000 per-| o ——————— sons are now unemployed in textile and related | Little Japan gobbling up great chunks of mainland trades because of cotton reduction alone.” iSP(‘n\S preposterous until you lay a'map of England on Enormously encouraged by the waves of applnusmm‘“ of one of the dominions.—Detroit News. that greeted his solemn assurance, the senator permxt-i ted himself an emphatic repetition of the charge. |a project for a roomy stadium to be devoted to boxing But as so frequently happens when the Old Guard- | expibitions. This, naturally, would be known as the stérs blunder into criticism of the well-balanced pro- Punch Bowl.—Boston Herald. These are questions that must be answered befora | A reader of the Birmingham, England, Post writes | A California enthusiast is endeavoring to finance Juneau, 1§ The B. M. Bank Behrends , Alaska COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS Resources Over Two and One Half Million Dollars Be: e e D L A s i Look and Learn By A. C. Gordon 1. What is the weight of the hi man heart in the average adult? 2. What was the name of the Merchant of Venice, peare’s play? 3. What is the only truemammal g2 _m that can fly? 4. What does Ursa Major mean? 5. What is the capital of the DENTISTS Province of Nova Scotia? o Blomgren Building - | PHONE 56 ANSWERS Hours 9 am to ) pm. 1. Barely more than 12 ounces. |: £ 2. Antonio. 3. The bat. 4 in, meaning 5. Halifax. - R e D Daily L.essons in English By W. L. Gordon Words Often Misused: Do not sa; ‘Her ring and mine are both alike.” Omit both. DENTIST Often Mispronounced: Laconic. fiie | Pronounce la-kon-ik, a as in ask| i Hours 9 am. 10 6 pm unstressed, o as in on, i as in it,| | SEW\RDv PUILDD‘XG- it accent second syllable. A o1 ) Often Misspelled: Ghetto, pro- |y O"'W.N"e it At | nounced get-o. . — in Shakes- “the Great the most conspicuous of the northern constellations. R DA , Helene W. L. Albrecht | PHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics | 207 GOLDSTEIN BLDG. | Phone Office, 216 u- L5 ! | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | | Dr. C. P. Jenne | DENTIST | Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine | | Building | Telephone 176 | -5 [ RO DENTIST OJFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building | Phone 431 — e ffl] g‘g_:_:fl‘ i ; Dr. Richard Williams ) | Synonyms: Utterly (adverb), & wholly, totally, completely, alto- | | TELEPHONE 5A3 | gether. | Office Hours—9-12; 1-6 | Word Stud. Use a word thrce‘ | Dr. W. A. Rystrom | times and it is yours.” DENTIST crease our vocabulary by mastering | | (AT gy 5 H one word each day. Today's word: | | OVer First Natlonal Bank | Carnose; of, pertaining to, or like, |, 5 i flesh. “A distinct carnose muscle.” |~ T % —Ray. = i [ e i Q. Is it permissible for a wife to enter her husband’s private of-, OSTEOPATH fice unannounced? Consuliation a nd examinstion A. Tt is more courteous for the | Free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; | wife to have herself announced. ! to §:30 and by appointment. Her husband may be talking with someone on something if \1 d | [ Ope. D. voaern | Graduate Los Angeles Col- ~ . | lege of Optumetry and hth uette i Opthalmo’ogy { | Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground | 2v Roberta I ee — . ————— — AR v impor ance, or dictating letters. Q. When giving an informal din- ner at a club, how should the in- vitations A. By informal note, or by tele- be extended? phone. Q. Is it correct for a child address his t r as “Teache: No; he should address her| = as “Miss Brown.” T |l jones-Stevens Shop FOUD SALE 1 Children of Mary Food Sale, Sat-| | LADIES' — MISSES' urday, Jan. 25, at the Sanitary|! READY-TO-WEAR : Grocery. —adv.| | Seward Street Let us in-| | »wi'l W.P.JOHNSON Robert Simpson DR. H. VANCE Office Grand Apts., Lear Gas- Phone 177 t- tineau Hotcl. ENZRAL MOTORS and | MAYTAG PRODUCTS | WINTER COATS AT HALF PRICE Near Third % ez E%J "':‘ = 1} = [ e 1. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” Home of Hart 3ehatfner and Marx ~'~thing | i) SRS R R TYXPEWRITERS RENTED $5.00 per wonth If you enjoy indoor sports— Here’s one of the best—TRY BOWLING! BRUNSWICK | I Cigars Cards The New Arctic Pabst Famous Draught Beer On Tap DRY CLEANING Soft Water Washing E Your ALASKA LAUNDRY PHONE 15 l PROFESSIONAL | ' —_— R LR A BT Dr. A. W. Stewart | T D S ST ) Fraternal Societies | R | A Gastineau Channel H } B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 P, M. Visiting brothers wel« come. M. E. MONAGLR, Exalted Ruler. M. H SIDES, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1 1760. Meetings second & and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient orothers urged to at- tend. Council Cham- ; bers, Fifth 8t. JOHN F. MULLRN, G. K, H. J. TURNER, Secretary, o o e R PR M “IOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 | {econd and fourth Mon« day of each month in 6( Scottish Rite Temple, beginnihg at 7:30 p. m. MARTIN S. JORGEN- SEN, Worshipful Mastér; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. DOOGT '8 ¥YOE AERIE o i 17, F. 0. E. & Eowe oy | Meets first and third Mondays & p.m., Eagles’ Hall, Douglas. 7isiting { brothers welcome. J. B. Martin, W, |P., T. N. Cashen, Secretary. PRECEDENCE Certain things come, with the years, to be an expected part of every occasion. Within our I >fession, this regard for the tiaditional must be combined with new steps toward perfec- tion. Their successful combin- ation at all times is but one of the standards marking a service by us. The Charles W. 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