The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1936, Page 4

b THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER Published _every _evening except _Sunday the RMPIRE PRIN ond and Main COMPANY at S ka. Streets, Juneau, Ala " Entered in the Post Office in June: matter Second Cl: SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. By mail tage paid, at the following rates One year, in advance, $12.00. 5 h, in $ avor if they will promptly y failure or irregularity $6.00; one m advar Subscribers will confer notify the Business Office of in the delivery of their papers Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Press is exclusi entitle the 1 of all news dispatches ci d to credited in this paper and also the red herein. ATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER AT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION OUR FARTHEST NORTHWEST. Another of the many instances that indicate the | - - Editor and Manager - | Cause. T i So that's what we in Alaska are going to do in the possible that the famous Al was thinking back: to the |last campaign when, after Mr. Roosevelt had been | nominated, he did a little campaigning for him in the east . At that time the wearer of the Brown Derby then was still a Democrat and did his bit for the in fact, on one occasion their paths crossed at Albany, N. Y., and the personal mecting was madz quite a lot of over the country. Al's greeting to Roose- | velt at the time was heralded far and wide. He is re- said, “Hello, you Old Potato,” a jovial, well-meeting salutation. Maybe that's what he had in mind when he .\flldi he'd take a walk, only his greeting now will be, “Yes, we have no Potato | There's many a husband who probably is silently | praying for the success of that strike against the Easter | parade finery establishments. {next war? Catch fish for the Japanese. was not overly enthusiastic about the nominee but he | HAPPY FEBRUARY 1. Dr. W. A. Stewart. M. H. Sides. Ed Jones. A. L. Riendeau. ‘Wilbur B. Converse. Richard L. Schultz. Bernard Boyle. Doris Ann Bartlett. | The year 1936 may be a break for the girls, but to | the pedestrian it is just another leap year. | A Splendid Feat. | (New York Times) With the details received yesterday from Lincoin Ellsworth of his 2,000-mile flight in five stages across | the Antarctic, the true proportions of that hazardous | journey with Herbert Hollick-Kenyon at the controls became apparent. Apart from the importance of this looking down with the eye of an eagle on vast areas heretofore unknown to man, the airplane flight takes rank as a great feat of aviation. The Polar Star, swift and rugged monoplane, and its tireless engine met and overcame conditions that would test to the limit. Crossing, on the first and longest flight of nearly | growing “Alaska-conscious” wave that is spreading 14 hours, mountain ranges which necessitated an alti- | 3 20 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 7. 1916. Nothing disavowal thereof, will time since the the Lusitania first over long d has been appeared greatly worried. — BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratulg- | tions and best wishes today, their l—oeeome. hday anniversary, .5 the follors- take the initiative in indicating P e that it would be pleasant to meet Pdia e RGOS 1 920 g 1 again? A, It proper for either to From The Empire i el R RO G | — but Germanys absolute admission that the Lusitania torpe- doing was illegal, coupled with a be accept- able to the government of the Unit- ed States, according to statements | given by those high in administra- tion circles this afternoon. For the in [ progress. Ambassador Bernstorf throughout the nation is a recent editorial in the|tude of 12,000 feet, the plane came to rest on a plateau } Providence, Rhode Island, Journal, which for more|6400 feet above sea level. The next day it took off | than one hundred years has held an estimable and|promptly, but was brought down again after only | envied place in American journalism. The editorial, |thirty minutes of fiying because of thick weather. Tmt! based on Gov. John W. Tyoy’s annual report, is here | held, and it was not until the third day that the | | plane was again in the air, this time to be brought to | reprinted: | In his annual report to the Secretary of | earth by poor visibility after 50 minutes. the Interior, Governor John W. Troy of - | Then came a three-day blizzard with a temperature of 5 degrees below zero. Thankful that they had not | Alaska gives a valuable survey of conditions been blown aw: the adventurers tried to start the | plane, without success, after warming the engine for an | hour. The whole inside of the tail was a solid block" of snow which had drifted in. It took Ellsworth a | wnole day to bail this out with bucket and cup. Five attempts at hand-cranking ended only in a choked sputter of the engine. Then the resourceful Canadian | pilot, who had met the problems of North-country flying, connected the radio battery to the starter and the engine sprang into life. | Clearing a track for the ski landing gear, they were | |soon in the air, to fly for 3 hours 55 minutes to a point “ | within 160 miles of their destination. Next morning |early, after a night of what eager anticipation may be imagined, they were off again to land at what proved later to be a point sixteen miles from the head of the Bay of Whales, out of gasoline after the long grind, and the many unexpected stops and starts. ‘The Polar Star,” Ellsworth wrote, “slackened her speed and, like a weary bird, gently came to earth.” A bird entitled to rest after one of the world’s greatest | homings in that distant Territory. Most of us are practically unconscious of | Alaska. It means very little to us most’of the | time, though occasionally it contrives to break | in upon our minds, as it did when Wiley Post | and Will Rogers perished in a plane near Point | Barrow, or when some new circumstance of | the life of the transplanted farmers of the i Matanuska Valley has come to our attention. Nevertheless it has an area of nearly i 600,000 square miles, is a grand producer of valuable metals, is gradually witnessing the construction of modern highways, has a railroad several hundred miles length in which operates both in summer and in winter, and furnishes a varied list of fish foods, in- cluding salmon, herring, halibut, cod, clams, shrimps, trout and crabs The total value of the mineral production of Alaska from 1880 to the end of 1934 was $680,000,000, a graphic commentary on the caustic term ard’s Folly,” invented to de- scribe the purchase of the Territory from the Russians in 1867 for seven million dollars. Not to rehearse the Alaskan mineral output in detail, we may note that the gold secured in the period stated was worth $434,000,000 and the copper $214,000,000. Other items listed in the Governor's report are silver, coal, tin, lead and platinum metals. The value of the gold secured in 1934 is put at $16,000,000, but the Governor says that while the gold obtained in 1933 is computed at the old standard price, $20.67 a fine ounce, that secured in 1934 is computed at the new price, $35 a fine ounce. Quite a difference. Alaska is included in the Seattle, Wash- ington, engineering district. Ketchikan harbor was completed in 1933, and now has a stone breakwater with a concrete cap and a dredged area with a mean-water depth of ten feet. At ‘Wrangell Narrows a steamer channel 200 feet wide and 21 feet deep was finished as long ago as 1928. Port Alexander has a capacious chan- nel and there is a five-year-old harbor of refuge for smail boats in Resurrection Bay at Seward. The Nome harbor project provides two parallel jeities at the mouth of Snake River. And so on. Commercial aviation shows great gains. There were eight planes in service in 1929 and 73 in 1935. In the same period the yearly num- ber of passengers increased from 2171 to 13,318 and the mail and freight from 118,851 pounds to 1,722.7i In summer there are two round railroad trips a week between Seward and Fairbanks but during much of the year only one. There is also a convenient river steamboat service. During the fiscal year for which Governor Troy reports, the total rail and water-line revenue, including non- operating income, was nearly $1,500,000, with a net deficit of only $73,000, a decrease of nearly 59 percent as compared with the deficit of the previous year. There are “seventeen incorporated towns in Alaska, with a total assessed property valu- ation for the fiscal year (1935) of nearly $25,- 000,000. The rates of taxation vary from 10 to 20 mills. The Governor recommends a full Territor- ial form of government, vigorous develop- ment of mining—especially gold mining, a title grant of not less than 160 acres to fur farmers, greater activity toward the extermination of predatory animals and other enemies of the valuable wild life of the Territory, encourage- ment of tourist travel, liberal treatment of transportation interests, a comprehensive pro- gram of survey for the public domain as a means to increase the population, speeding up of harbor and waterway improvement, and establishment of naval and army bases. He remarks that the 1935 tourists showed a decided increase in number — five regular steamship lines served Alaska with 33 vessels during the tourist season, carrying capacity loads, and he says: “It is believed with improv- ing economical conditions throughout the United States that Alaska will shortly become the mecca of thousands of travellers from the States who are becoming Alaska-minded.” We confess that alcer reading his interesting and instructive report, we are inclined to be Alaska- minded ourselves, YES, WE HAVE NO POTATOES. The political prognosticators af the nation are trying to figure out just what Al Smith meant when he Zero is better than the rainy season in dear old Ethi- said in his Liberty League speech that he'd probably “take a walk” if the Democratic National Convention endorses President Roosevelt. It is causing as much speculation as when the late President Coolidge didn’t “choose” to run. A variety of interpretations are offered. But it is The Harmless, Necessary Cat (New York Herald Tribune) The cat is the animal that is always in the news. If some one who loves dogs and some one who dotes on cats should subscribe in friendly rivalry for their pets to a clipping bureau it would be found that the cat has much the better press, not the slightest doubt The cat is ever on a telegraph pole, being extricated |from between walls and floors, extracted from chim neys or from under the hood of a parked car. In and |out of the silly season she is born with more than a | fair allowance of toes or pictured mothering day-old chicks, puppies, what-not enemy young. She runs up a big animal score of column inches in the news and | is never long absent from the columnist’s comment and anthology. Editorial page correspondence can get hot over the seemingly simple question—what is a tabby cat? But it is at the time of the cat show—such as the | thirty-fourth annual championship show of the At- lantic Cat Club—that puss gets her biggest spread in |the papers; and this is about the only time that she fmnkes the news column for anything except being in a | itight place of having got above herself. Esteem of | | the alley cat (his country cousin is the barn cat) seems | |to be growing at the shows. Entries of short-haired |cats, “breeding unknown,” have nearly doubled. The fanciers know how to prefer their Persians, Siamese. | Angoras, but the general public that is at all suscept- | ible to cats is still somewhat resistant to these dis- tinguished foreigners. The common cat, with a bus)" career in a butcher store, a saloon, a ship, a hayloft, the | necessary mouser or the fighting tom with dlstendedf |cheeks and ragged ears, curtained whiskers, or the |plain, home-loving female, breeding unknown, that | | sits on a windowsill in the sun or by the fire (or radi- | |ator), seemingly in a depth of content that human- | {kind can never know—those of the general public who | |do not cordially hate cats incline to these types and are pleased when they hold their own with the gorgeous | exotics that devote cat breeders and fanciers apotheo- | | size in the shows | Skeptical. (8t. Louis Post-Dispatch) | All told, Mr. Pinchot has accumulated a big quota | |of aversions on his journey through life, but Gutfey | |is his reigning hymn of hate, now that Andrew Mellon | 'has drifted into comparative obscurity. Mr. Pincnot | says that relief in Pennsylvania as administered by the | iWPA has touched apogees or perigees of corruption— |has surpassed anything in that line which the Key stone State has known. If that is a factual verdict, |affairs must truly be terrible, for in the long annals | from Matt Quay to the Golden Primary, Pennsylvania | has seen about all the angles, grades, trajectories and | attainments of corruption in the terrain of spoils. | Americanism:—Feeling horrified when a Congress- | man takes a bribe; voting for the candidate who prem- 1‘ ises to get us the most money.—Akron Beacon- | |Journal. * SN The peanut, a scientist asserts, is really not a nut, but belongs to the bean family. It would be nice if they could say as much about some of the people down at ‘Washington.—Boston Transcript. As Mr. Fletcher might sing: “I put a Republican playlet in here—and a Democratic broadcast comes out there. Whoa-ho-ho!"—Buffalo Courier-Express. Cheer up, even a blizzard with a temperature at opia.—Detroit Free Press. Mix a high wind, zero weather, and snow together | and hardly anybody is happy.—Indianapolis News.: | on Thursday afternoon at 2 oclock. Modern Etiquette By Roherta I .ee — Q. What is the real meaning of | | “negligee”? A. A kind of casy robe or dress- ing gown worn by women. Q. When having a church wed- ! ding, should the bridegroom send , the bride’s LZuquet to the church? A. No.; he should have it sent' to the bride’s home. | @ Should the man or the woman i [ O TR NG, 3 FG s Daily Lessons SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1936 long labor trouble that will finall be adjusted after an event of n2 This is an uncertain day in pl R TR T S e o ction, according to as-|m Gl But there is a promising! | sign for travel, especially by air-| | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER plane. | DENTISTS Industry continues subject to sin-: | Blomgren Building i ister signs that seem to presage a| | PHONE 56 307 GOLDSTEIN BLDG. ! Phone Office, 216 | S e Hours 9 a.m- to ) pm. tional moment Women today may mest obstacles blocking their best laid ‘plans, Dis- appointments in connection with domestic affairs are probable. Hus-! bands may be late to their own: dinner parties. There is a lucky day for girls to's meet eligible young men. College students should be fortunate under in English L2 W. L. Gordon = %1 | %f \ ) \ WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do! not say, “I am glad that is over with.” Omit with. | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: | Ephemeral. Pronounce e-fem-er-al, first e as in me, second e as in men, o as in at unstressed, accent second yllable ! { tion will be very The famous Alaska steam schoon- OFTEN MISPELLED: Eccen- er Excelsior was run down and]tricity. Observe the three c's. } sunk in the harbor of San Fran-| SYNONYMS: Distrust (noun), cisco by the crack liner Harvard of the Admiral Line. The crew was rescued. Brigadier General Weaver, chief of the Coast artillery, told the mem- bers of the House Committee oni| Military Affairs that in his judg- ment and opinion “Alaska needs no | heavy artillery for its defense.” The remarks occasioned some sur- prise since it was known that the administration plans embraced ex- tra precautions for the defense of the coast of Alaska. Judge Robert W. Jennings signed an order to Clerk of the Court J. W. Bell ordering the court and jury commissioner, E. W. Pettit, to draw the grand and petit jury panels for the term of court meeting March 6 Thursday night at the Elks' Ciub is ladies night. The Elks are going to give a Keno party for the mem- bers and ladies. Coupons will be issued free and those getting the most coupons up to 11 oclock will win the prizes, which will be for both ladies and gentlemen. Over one hundred members and visiting brethren were in attendance at the opening session of the Fourth Annual Reunion of the Scottish Rite Bodies of the Valley of Juneau, Orient of Alaska, which was bei held at Odd Fellows’ Hall. Charles Goldstein served as Almoner | WORD STUDY: “Use a three times and it is yours.” U5 increase our vocabulary by ma tering one word each d: Today word or evading; 1s a dream.’ baffling. “As elusiv Look ard Learn By A. C. Gordon of eggs per person in the U. S.? ures? 3. picture, “Portrait of My Mother"? mean? 5. Which state has long South”? ANSWERS {'1. Three-fourths of an egg. 2. 5,000 miles 3. James Abbott er (1834- 3) 4. “As below.” 5. Georgia P e SPECIALIZING sl in French Wtather: Maximum, 37; Mini- il mum, 29; clear. TRE T T Italian SHOP IN JUNEAU! | B 8 R AN AR s Dinners S e ] BETTY MAC BEAUTY SHOP 12 and B Streets b PHONE 547 the BEST! If you're out to please the man of the family . let us help you! 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