The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 6, 1936, Page 4

RIS Sy g THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 6, 1936. Dail\' Alaska Empire | mingling with the passengers and making himseit .~ Y {an all-around agreeable companion. Such acts in . N ] - - tor 1“2-“““ WORERT Vo, BEDY L% Pl o " | England are considered more or less bad taste, bad form Publish. every by the and bad judgment, but the spry young ruler can't e Taan Ay nd’ M2In| e bothered, which makes him admirable to the rest — = —— |of the world as well as his own people. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Qelivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. at the The New Farm Plan. (New York Times) The Times publishes this morning the text of the mptly | Administration’s new Farm Bill, devised as a tempor- A L ary substitute for AAA. It consists of a series of amend- ments to a comparatively obscure law known as the Soil Conservation Act, adopted without much fanfare to thelin April of last year. That earlier law declares itself f:,du“:‘ to be the policy of Congress to prevent soil erosion, and with this in view the Secretary of Agriculture is KA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED To BE LARGER|2uthorized “to carry out preventative measure: THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION ing, but not limited to, engineering operations, meth USEREET R ods of cultivation, the growing of vegetation and changes in use of land.” | The new bill proposes to stiffen the backbone of ‘mu earlier law and to broaden the powers it confers. Depletion of the soil and the “improper use” of it are now declared, obviously with a watchful eye on the Supreme Court, to be matters affecting “the national welfare.” To prevent such practices, to maintain farm purchasing power and to assure “prices fair to both producers and consumers,” the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay bounties or benefits to farmers. These bounties cannot (in deference to the Supremc Court’s recent decision) be based on contracts binding upon the producer; but they are to be | conditioned upon the maintenance by the pro- | ducer of such acreage of erosion-preventing or following rates paid, months, in advance, By mail One year, e e m advance, $1.25 Subscribers will confer 4 or if they will pr potify the Business Offic failure or irreg e delivery of t Telephones: News 2; Business Office MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Associated Press is exclusively entitled republication of all news dispatches cre not otherwise credited in this paper and al news published herein. use it « soil-improvement crops, or such acreage or production of agricultural commodities desig- nated by the Secretary, or upon such utilization of land, as the Secretary finds has tended to further the purposes of this act. For the payment of these proposed bounties no funds are provided in the present bill. But it s under- A TAKU MEMORANDUM. Mark Twain once said, everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. We are going to do something about it. We are going to com- |stood that a separate request will be made for .an pare it with— | appropriation of $440,000,000. Whether this will be 1. The weather in the Dakotas and the middle |borrowed or raised through new taxes has not been west where temperatures are running around 40 revealed. Questioned on this point, one of the memoers below zero. |of the Senate Committee on Agriculture replied: “Ask 2. Northern Florida where flood victims are su Mr. Morgenthau where the mgney is coming from.’ i Two other questions are raised by the introduction 1Y e [of the bill. In what respects, as law, does it differ from 3. The Atlantic seaboard where the act recently declared by the Supreme Court to be are shivering in sub zero temperatures. {unconstitutional? And in what respects, as policy, does 4. California, where more flood victims are won- it differ from AAA? dering when it is all going to end. | The gist of the Supreme Court's opinion was that 5. Balmy Puget Sound where freezing tempera- |“‘the regulation of agricultural production is a matter tures and snow are disturbing the Chamber of Com- Not within the power of Congress,” and that by paving merce publicity men. farmers to farm in fl‘l:(‘l‘lflll’? way Congres was in . effect coercing them in a field of action properly 6. The Great Lakes district where 40-mile-an-hor| oo yeq to the States, Will the abandonment of the winds are causing suffering and destruction. | contract system, and the substitution for it of a system And then we are going to declare those are SiX of payments to be made on evidence that the farmer good reasons why the present climatic condition in'has complied with certain standards established by Juneau can not be considered very bad, even if the the Secretary of Agriculture, meet the court’s ob- jection? Senator Norris said yesterday that he does not think it will. The question will doubtless be raised in Congressional Gepate and, in event of the adoption of the bill in its present form, be tested in the court. the inhabitants mercury is down around zero temporarily. If it goes any lower it might not be a bad 1dea if you have any rats around, to take advantage of the suggestion of that champion liar, Fibber McGee of As for policy: it is obvious that the new bill retair Chicago, and bait the thermometer with cheese 0 everal of the most important features of the old when the mercury goes down far enough it will pin | AAA—the bounty system, the maintenance of a the rats to the floor. ‘ fair price” and the control of production, though this {control is now made incidental to conservatidn. The . e =) % 4 Chs | chief point of difference between the old plan and the IS MITCHELL COMING BACK? new is a shift of emphasis from wholly negative to more positive action. Under AAA, farmers were paid Back in 1925 and '26 Brigadier General William go. not producing crops which the Government decided Mitchell created quite a furore about the COUNIY | were not needed. The theory of the new play is that by predicting what he could do with some good air- | payments would be made @s a reward for planting Pplanes, if the army had them, and, incidentally, poini- crops which, without adding to an ‘existing surplus, ing out how many battleships he could sink from the air. | Would help to conserve the soil. It was in line with a vigorous campaign he put tor- ward for a separate air force. As a result of some of his utterances, the General was forced to resign from the Army. He was at the time assistant Chief of tine Air Corps. Since then the General has been at vari- | Nerveus Thermometers. (Cincinnati Enquirer) It might be said with a good deal of truth that for ous times a thorn in the flesh of the military air MOSt Americans, life is just a bunch of dials. We cast | forces as a resull of some of his suggestions, and now & EIOVering eve upon the dials of an all-too-trust- reports emanate from the East that the former Army & ROS i e swhsen lor an T A day. officer is giving the military aviation world another radios, and other hours glancing down at the dia case of jitters, of our speedometers, oil gauges, and sundry measuring It is being rumored about that Gen. Mitchell may devices that clutter the instrument boards of our be restored to his old rank of Colonel which would motor cars. make him eligible to retirement pay of $375 per month. In the last few days, however, attention has centered (Mitchell was a Brigadier General by temporary ap- OR the ancient thermometer. They come with dials, pointment only, and if he was restored to rank it would too, these days, but we prefer the good old-fashioned be hat of Colomel. g ) B mercury column, particularly for that cold corner 1S permanent appointment.) BUC gy tiqe the kitchen window. It takes just such weather more disturbing to some sources is the report that as we have had in Cincinnati in recent days to remid under such an arrangement Mitchell would be in us what an exciting story the thermometer tells. position to be called to active service by the Com- They are erratic-gadgets, these thermometers, for mander-in-Chief, none other than President Roosevelt. When folk gather at offices and shops, they like w A bill calling for returning the General to rank Compare notes on the weather, and rarely do any two is now before Congress and is said to have the ap- | ‘hermometers seem to agree. Very often the reason proval of the White House. There afe thoge who be- | L¢5 1ot in any dublous veracity of the instrument, lieve the President might call Mitchell to active serv- | or, [ the very human tendency lo exaggerate as a z " 'means of emphasis. Low temperatures almost in- ice and put him in charge of a Department of Ar, | variably drop somewhat between the thermometer and which would have control over all' American aviation, ' the subsequent conversation, while high temperatures including the Army and Navy. S soar in order to establish impressive records. Mitchell is a colorful figure. He enlisted in the In other cases, the thermometers give a false picture, army as a private in 1898 and advanced through all the Pecause of their location. One such case was noted in the news yesterday, when a Mount Airy resident found 27 degrees below zero on the windward side of his house and only 15 degrees to the leeward (pronounced We spend hours fumbling with the dials of our grades to Brigadier. He resigned his commission on February 1, 1926, after a court martial in which he was charged with insubordinate utterances against his “loo-urd” by all good sea-faring men). Army superiors. A curious case of very different nature was also It will be interesting to watch and see if the old learned. This fellow was a trifle irritated to notice | flying firebrand of a decade ago can come back to that his outdoor thermometer registered only down be the big man at the “stick” in modern aviation. |to zero—a most discouraging event, with the mercury | ' known to be hovering into the 'teens below that point. o S e A R ‘ g : ¢ d Repairing to his well-heated bedroom he discovered | Report is that Russia is secking to replace Italy as |, "thormometer evidently built for the Alaskan trade, | the dominant power in southeastern Europe. Late re- | yegistering to 60 degrees below. It should be recordec | ports from the League of Nations indicate Russia is that he swapped thermometers, doubtless with a | not the only one hopeful of making Mussolini less muttered prayer that the new instrument for outdoor | dominant. ‘use would never prove inadequate. Now that Borah has tossed his hat in the ring, Newspaper pictures seem to indicate that these we wonder if the ring is going to be big enough 1o diplomats are a funny-looking bunch, but you'd hold both his and Landon’s. probably be, too, if you had to go arouna all the time | i |with your tongue in your cheek.—Boston Evenmg’ While there's life, there's hope, is one way to look | 1TaDscript. at those air mail routes. Exploitation and bringing more Stanford University overlooked a good bet when people to Alaska will do the trick. |they let Hoover graduate .without puuiung him in | the backfield. Even today you can't tell whether he's | going to run or to pass.—Springfield Union. | + A DEMOCRATIC KING. The new King of England, still the Prince of Wales| Col. Frank Knox, the great aisostle of economy, 1s | to most of us, is quite a Democratic fellow and early | not opposed to sin. He is opposed only to the com- | | mission of sin by himself. There really ought to be reports on the beginning of his regime as ruler indicate |™ he is going to continue the policy he adopted before |SOmebody charged with the duty of sounding the | e ascending to the throne. Fraser Hunt, widely knawn“g'mg o8 Rimsieqr SNSnvRaldmte . B il o pighbortug tancher of the former m} Republicans applaud the Supreme Court decision | in Canada, has predicted Edward VIII will be the 1ast | weakening the power of the federal government. | King of England because of his democratic tendencies | you might almost think they do not expect to run and trend away from royalty coupled with the univer- | the thing any more.—New Yorker. sal decline of monarchies. That may or may not come | to pass, but it is evident the new King is going to go rl*ht ahead being a good fellow. His first act as ruler, which indicated his mde—‘ pendence, was to step in an airplane and hop from Sandringham to London to attend to official matters. | mtmmmrd:mwdosuch-mmg_| | Senator Borah would have a progressive fragrance ‘nnd still be safe as & church for regulars.—Milwaukee | | Journal. . J. P. Morgan says his bank did not urge Wilson to go into war. Of course, the Morgans were angry at | Germany, but they remained calm—and collected.— | . Foggy Wigather, made the return trip by air impossible. New Yorker. 4 = ’<o the young King went home by ordinary train, includ- | |price than had prevailed since the T 'HAPP BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratula- | Lirthday anniversary, <> the folloio- \ing: FEBRUARY 6 B. M. Behrends Charles Whyte Jackson Wilbur Storey SIS PO ) o e \ From The Empire 20 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 6, 1916 Secretary Lansing denied flatly | that new demands were made by the | United States government at a time when German authorities consider- ed negotiations practically at an end. | There was no indication whether or not President Wilson considered the German counter-proposals satisfac- tory in the Lusitania torpedoing. | Reports were also going the diplo- matic rounds that Sweden and Spain were soon to entcr the European con- flict. Both were rumored to be at- tached to the Teutonic side. | One of the greatest snowstorms in | the history of Seward Peninsula con | tinued its en-day grasp on Nome. |Even newspapers did not deliver | {their daily editions. | The condition of the wholesale | |and retail drug market in the United | States was reported by Juneau drug- gists to be in a critical stage. Many drugs were commanding a higher | Civil War. Others were impossible to | |obtain at any price. ! | | f Camp Juneau No. 32 of the Arcl:c‘: Brotherhood held its regular busi- iness meeting in the new hall. It be- ing ladies’ day for use of the tank, |the meeting adjourned early so that jclub members could join their wives and sweethearts for a swim. Juneau High School students pre- sented “‘College Town.” Among those in the cast were: Simpson Mac- Kinnon, Harry Sabin, Hazel Jaeger, | Waino Hendrickson, Wilbur Burford, |Frances Ptack, Lillian Collins. | an unoccupied cabin owncd by Mrs. J. Montgomery Davis on Sev- enth Street, was entirely destroyed |by fire. An alarm was turned in and the fire department responded but bt |was forced to stand by and watch the building burn as the water pres- [ sure was too low to be effective. The electric lights at Sitka were all out, as a result of high winds blowing wires down, and picture shows and businesses of all kinds were unable to operate. . Weather: Maximum, 33; |23, clear. — e In 60 years British Columbia grew from 36,000 population to a province | of 700,000 residents. e ! BETTY MAC BEAUTY SHOP 12and B Streets PHONE 541 Pt seneon o v, Sotmmsg | | | the BEST! If you're out to please the man of the family . . . let us help you! A grand selection of good food . . . vegetables and | tions and best wishes today, their ). Saturday, February 8, lock e Modern Etiquette i b Q. When one is accepting or de- clining an invitation, shouldn't it be written in the first person? A. Yes, if the invitation is in the first person; but if the invitation is in the third person, the answer should be in the third person. Q. TIs it wise to become intimate with new acquaintances? A. No; it is impolite, unwise, and often brings regrets, Q. Should one use the fingers or the fork to eat asparagus? A. The fork should be used. Daily L.essons in English 67 W. L. Gordon Words Often Misused: Do not say, ‘T saw it some place.” Say, “I saw it somewhere." Often Mispronounced: Piccolo. | Pronounce pik-o-lo, is as in pick, both o's as in no, accent first syllable. Often Misspelled: Chauffeur. Ob- serve the four vowels and the ff. Synonyms: Blend (verb), mi |merge, combine, compound, amalga- mate. Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Sinister; indicating lurking evil or harm. “Events took a sinister turn.” ————— Look ar:d Learn By A. C. Gordon 1. What is the most expensive commercial metal, not an alloy? 2. What is the name of the oval- haped park at the foot of Broad- vay, New York City? 3. Who is head of the U. S. De- partment of Justice? 4, Do fish have teeth? 5. What is England’s flower? national ANSWERS 1. Radium. 2. Bowling Green. #3. Homer Cummings. 4. Yes; most of them have teeth, ghedding them often, then growing new ones. 5. The rose. Ladigigrug BRIDGE LUNCHEON Auspices American Legion Auxil- at 1 —adv. SHOP IN JUNEAD! in French and Italian Dinners Gastineau Cafe Short Orders at All Hours 0SS CONSTRUCTION CO. ! Phone 107 Juneau F FRED W. WENDT 1 If It's Paint We Have It! || PHONE 549 { all the #kings that men like best. Sanitary Grocery PHONE 83 or 85 “The Store That Pleases” The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau, Alaska COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS Resources Over Two and One : Half Million Dellars Ry Roberta Iee { [ 22 ] Horoscope “The stars 7acline but do not compel” — FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1936 Mingled good and evil planetary influences are active today. The stars encourage commerce and trade, but speculation should be avoided. Under this planetary government financial matters may be much :n the public mind. Cities, counties and states will struggle with difficult money problems. Warning is given that there may be a tendency on the part of both men and women to spend lavish Sudden reaction from fear of poverty may lead to foolish extravagance. This is a fortunate date for enter- taining and especially auspicious | for dinners or banquets. Foreign vis- itors may inspire many feasts. | Under this direction of the stars girls may have keen vision in re- gard to themselves. All who take jcareful stock of their charms will benefit. Common sense rules und this configuration. Agitation regarding | increase of drinking among the young as well as persons of all ages now will preface | another, prohibition campaign, the seers prognosticate. This is not a favorable day for | romance. While the stars presage many intense and hasty love affairs later, when the influence of Mars | is strong, this month may be rather 1a prosaic period. Home building and home planning will occupy attention early in the spring when architects will introduce ing cares. Persons whose birthdate it is hav the augury of a year of important developments in domestic as well as financial affairs. Honors come to a few and success to many. Children born on this day prob- | i - - b SR lr PROFESSIONAL | Fraternal Societies e ——U N | oF— | — n Gastil i astineau I | Helene W. L. Albrecht | i $ome d PHYSIOTHERAPY ;- | Massage, Electricity, Infra “ad ¥ | Ray, Medical Gymnastics ' B. P. 0. ELKS meets | %07 GOLDSTEIN BLDG. | every Wednesday at 8 P, Phone Office, 216 | M. Visiting brothers wes 4 5 come M. E. MONAGLR, - = R Exalted Ruler. M. H .‘4 5 SIDES, Secretary. DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER KNIGHTS i DENTISTS OF COLUMBUS 4 Blomgren Building s_-:ghers Council No. 4 i PHONE 56 1760. Meetings second Hours 9 am to 2 pm. ]and last Monday at 17:30 p. m. Transient orothers urged to at- Dr. C. P. Jenne | ' DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building Telephone 176 tend. Council Cham- bers, Fifth St. JOHN F. MULLRN, “G. K., H. J. TURNER, Secretary. — T “IOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 {econd and fourth Mona day of each month in Scottish Rite Temple, DENTIST | OIFICE AND RESIDENCE | Gastineau Building Phone 431 radical ideas that reauce housekeep- | 5 ably will be ambitious and able to |make their dreams come true. Sub- | jects of this sign usually have a cer- tain pride and many are exceedingly sensitive. | George P. Putnam, American | { lisher, was born on this d 1 | Others who have celebrated it a birthday include Charles Dicken: |English novelist, 1812; Millard Fi more, thirteenth President of ' United States, 1800. (Copyright, 1936) — .o - SPEND WHE £ YOU MAKE STCMACH SUFFERERS If you are suffering from indigestion, atonic stomach. inflammat ines (enteritis), gastric ac eadaches. due to excessive e can't alford to these should t Prescription you allow the 50 gas land sick ity the delics stemach and int a dangerous ulcers. 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