The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 26, 1936, Page 4

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1936 Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W BENDER - - evening _except _.\rn.rm' by Mois that you have helped ‘balance your budget’ in o e '\\lm‘\‘.“‘“ T wb Buound SEpA e Kansas by reducing funds for education and don i e - s human relief. makintered in the Post Office in Juncau as Second Class Official reports show that many Kansas o T SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau per month. By mail, postage paid. following rates: One year, In advance, $12 < months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in & 3 Subscribers will confer a they will promptly notify the Basiness Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their paper Telephone ws_Office, Business Office, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper local news published herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. TAMING “OLD MAN RIVER” Spring floods are now sweeping down the many trib- utaries of the Ohio and Missouri to join those of the upper Mississippi to tax the lower channel of that great- est of inland waterways, but government engineers are confidently predicting that although all their plans for the most gigantic river control system in history are not yet realized, there appears little danger of a repetition of the disastrous floods of old. Old Man River will be swollen and angry and ready for his per- ennial rampage and as fully prepared for the death | toll as the last great flood year of 1928. But the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers assert that “the valleys will find their enemy of yester the friend of today. For with allotments approximating $170,000,000, the | Public Works Administration has made it pnssmlel for the army experts to bring much nearer to comple- | tion their elaborate, far-flung program to turn what | always has been America’s worst menace to life and | property into a comparatively well-behaved and navi- | lrv if gable waterway system by which great frefght bearmg‘ vessels may dock at cities formerly landlocked. And even though a super-flood period should ar- rive this spring when the water now in the thousand | of tributaries reaches the lower channel, the control program for which the PWA allotted $44,000,000 has been so constructed that certain portions of the levees may be “broken” and excess waters drained into pools for storage until the danger is past. These will confine water that can no longer spread over vast acreage, ! washing out crops, destroying livestock and soil and causing death and devastation. And while melting | snow and heavy rains have inordinately swollen the - | Ma 217, tributaries, for manyhundrefls of ‘thiles to the éast|MENtof labor questions in literally thousands of in rch at 8:00 p.m. and thousands of miles to the west of the Mississippi, the engineers say that only abnormal precipitation in the valley of the Father of Waters itself during lhe next few months would overtax their elaborate system of levees, revetments, permeable banks and dykes and other artificial controls. The allotments of PWA have enabled the Army Corps of Engineers to complete 84 percent of their vast flood control plans. Included were the construc- tion of giant cut-offs, of nearly 200 miles of great wire mats to halt erosion, of 42 miles of permeable dykes, 2,789 miles of the most modern types of levees. More than 27,000 square miles have been brought under flood protection on the big river alone, which is only a part of the program. The locks and dams being con- structed with the PWA allotment of $170,000,000 in the Upper Mississippi, the Missouri, the Muskingum, the Tygart, the Monongahela and other tributaries of | the Ohio as well as in the Ohio itself will not only keep those streams navigable but result in prevention of property damage that has amounted to many millions annually and occasionally great loss of life. Completion of reservoir dams and flood control Pprojects in the Muskingum watershed in Eastern Ohio, for which $25,000,000 was allbtted, and in the Tygart river valley, to which PWA allotted $10,000,000, will spare those areas from floods that have ravaged them for years. A dam and reservoir near Grafton, W. Va., will control high waters in the Monongahela. These, together with a $22,000.000 allotment for the Ohio and other tributaries, are providing work for many thou- sands. A $17,753,108 allotment for flood control work on the Missouri dovetails into the Fort Peck Dam now under construction in Montana at the Missouri’s head- | waters. Like the Tygart and many other waterway projects, Fort Peck Dam is to prevent floods in the spring and to insure navigation in the summer. For the construction of this huge embankment which will create a lake 175 miles long, PWA set aside $25,- 000,000. The $33,500,000 for dams and channel work in the Upper, Mississippi will make it possible for steam- boats to reach the docks at Minneapolis and permit sizeable steamers to carry freight from the mouth of the Mississippi to any dock in the Great Lakes. Thus taming Old Man River and his almost in- numerable contributing children is one of the out- standing achievements of the ambitious public works program now nearing completion. By the judicious allotment of more than five billion dollars, 3,067 of the ration’s 3,076 counties have been given an opportun- ity to enjoy the benefits of a reemployment plan which has not only created permanent values vastly Editor and Manager the and Douglas for $1.25 of the executive board of the Progressive Education Association, read in part as follows: It is commonly reported in this great gath- ering of many groups of American educators schools have been closed for many months; that thousands of Kansas teachers and ad- ministrators are receiving notoriously low sal- aries and that school terms and educational facilities for other thousands of Kansas chil- dren are restricted. If elected President of the United States, would you approve ‘balancing the budget’ by similarly restricting education for American children and relief funds for American fam- ilies in need? I will report on your response to this telegram to the American Federation of Labor, with which the American Federation of Teachers is affiliated. | On the floor of the convention Dr. Givens and various other speakers showed that according to offi- cial records large numbers of teachers in Kansas are receiving safaries of less than $350 a year. They | pointed out that under Kansas law ‘local communi- ties cannot borrow funds for school purposes and the county, township and school district authorities have =had no support from the State government. Gov. Landon indicated by his silence that he was contest to rest the case on a letter written to Dr. Givens by Frank L. Pinet, secretary of the Kansas Teachers’ Association, which prominent American |educators promptly characterized as “an insipid evasion.” Pinet merely said he “is informed that 444 rural schools in Kansas found it more practical to| close and send children to nearby or adjoining dis- tricts” and “deeply deplored that educational mat- | | ters are being tainted with politics.” 1 Mr. Roosevelt’s Letter. (New York Times) President Roosevelt has sent a particularly inter- | esting letter to the railway managers and the rail- way labor leaders. The two groups have been trying for seme time to find a formula under which lars;e, |economies in the merging of railway facilities can be {achieved without undue loss of employment. The President thinks that the time is ripe for such econ- omies and advances the sound argument that the em- ployes will “surely gain” in the long run from maxi- mum efficiency in operation. He especially urges both sides to settle the matter between themselves, rather than take the dispute to Congress. For while he believes that legislation has its place, and is often necessarv Ior the welfare of both capital and labor, “it is a rem- to be taken with great caution or it may prove e than the disease.” Particularly in the present the President “fears harm to the railroad indus- “legislation is sought as the only solution.” Both sides will take extreme positions. The effect of such legislation may be to discourage | |m HAPPY ——BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratula- tions and best wishes today, their Cirthday anniversary, «o the follo: o=/ ing: MARCH 26 J. S. MacKinnon Joseph M. Smith Earl Bennett | Mrs. G. Isaak B Froui The Emplre | ‘i 20 YEARS AGO | e | MARCH 26, 1916 Mr. and Mrs. John F. Mullen be< came the parents of a baby son. weighing 10 pounds, born at St. Ann’s Hospital. The baby was named Bertran Behrends Mullen. i Later in the day a ten-pound baby son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd M. Ritter. sibility that the United States break off relations with Ger-| / again was discussed as Presi-| dvm Wilson probed the sinking oH British merchant vessels on which | American citizens were passengers. | Wild that the steamer Alaska bad hit an ice berg on the way to Cordova and had gone down with a fright- ful loss of life. The Empire quickly| dispatched all fears by ascertain- ing that the Alaska had reached Cordova the day before at two| o'clock and was still in the harbor Francisco Villa, pursued by 50, 000 U. S. trcops, is reported to have sent this message to all Carranza commanders: “Come with us; no more bullets for our countrymen; they are all for the gringoes.” The Treadwell basketball team re- turned on the Prince of Wales from | its trip to Skagway. Miss Alma Sowerby, recently op- erated on for appendicitis, contin- ued to improve. | and prevent progress. Litigation will ensue. The courts may strike down what is attempted | 50 that the ttleground will again shift to | Congress. The relations between the manage- | ments and the men will be embittered, with un- | fortunate results in many different ways. This is certainly an interesting and :flgumcam‘ |statement, considering how often in the past the| |Roosevelt Administration has relied on Congressional | lcglsl.mun as a solution of labor problems—witness the Wagner Labor Relations Act, the Guffey Coal | Bill and the ambitions attempt to make the Federal‘ ‘Go\cmmonl responsible, under NRA, for the settle- dustr; The President could draw heavily on some of these experiments for proof that legislation in such |matters has frequently been followed by litigation, by embittered feelings and by the taking of “extreme ‘posuions" on both sides. It is reassuring to find him, ;in the present case, advising against resort to a legis- | lative panacea and urging instead direct negotiations undertaken in a spirit of reasonableness and modera- tion. A Misleading Index. (Cincinnati Enquirer) The security markets enjoyed a very substantial rise as a result of the President’s recent tax message proposing a new levy on undivided corporate profits. But this should not lead unsuspecting persons to imag- adulterated blessing for business. The general feeling in business circles is quite the contrary. But the stock markets, as often happen, give an indication quite out of line with prevailing business sentiment. jcause the immediate distribution of great sums of money to stockholders, as preferable to paying the tax on those sums as surplus earnings. This would at once benefit holders of the stocks. Naturally, the shares tend to rise considerably, taking account of the likeli- hood of unusually large dividends. would be very different. their plants in best condition. It might ultimately re- duce the certainly it would injure the long-run interests of very large income-receivers, even though small investors might be permanently benefited. The exact influence of such a tax cannot be | | predicted accurately, especially since it depends on the rate of tax and the various surplus accounts made | exempt from the tax surge of equity shares should not lead anyone to con clude that the tax would be a great benefit to busines: in the long run. | Thomaston, Ga. Times, trying to make the best of things, is consoled with the thought that this coun- try has been in debt ever since Columbus borrowed to discover it. begins to assume about the same aspect as guessing what will happen when the monkey wrench hits mc machinery.—Lexington, Ky. Herald. his trouble ended if he embraced monogamy.—Ohic State Journal. |ed it ine that the proposed new tax is therefore an un- | j The proposed tax on corporate surpluses would | The long-run effect of the proposed tax, however.\ It would discourage corpora- | tions from reinvesting earnings and thereby keeping | revenues of stockholders materially, and | But in any event, the upw; rd Just what Borah's candidacy 1is going to mean | Maybe that wealthy East Indian who claims he | hasn't been able to sleep for two years would tind | The Arctic Brotherhood announc- was planning an April Fool | Ball to be held in the new A. B.| | Hall. 1 Weather: maximum, 43; mini- mum, 33; cloudy. ! - oLL I | ATTENTION TROLLERS Trollers' Special Meeting at the Miners’ Union Hall Friday night,* - T MAURICE AKRE | | GUITAR INSTRUCTOR | SPANISH STYLE—Single or a 1 rumors flew about Junean = | travagant, D —— Modern : Horoscope | — Etiquette P IRAG. "Helene W. L. Albrecht | w 9 PHYSIOTHERAPY | By Roherta l.ee 2‘;_ but do not compel Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Q. Should a man light his own | cigarette first, and then hold the ! mately for his friend? A. No; the American custom is | to light the other person’s cigarette first. Q. When a woman is expecting to be invited to several afternoon affairs, what should she wear? A. If expecting to attend several afternoon affairs, one should have an afternoon gown. Q. What does petit pois mean? A. “Small peas.” Daily Lessons in English &y W. L. Gordoa o ——— WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: De- cided means determined. Decisive means conclusive, or final. “A de- cided opinion” does not mean the same as a ‘“decisive opinion.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Or- dinary. Pronounce the a as in ate unstressed, not as in care. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Tableau; | cnounced tab-1o, 0 as in no. SYNONYMS: Exorbitant, ex- expen .. e, excessive, ex treme, dear. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three mes and it is yours.” Let us in- cre our vocabulary by mastering cne word each Today’s word: PROPRIETY; conformity to estab- Hhcd rules or cusfom. “The prop- ieties of etiquette forbid.” > - Look ard Learn By A. C. Gordon Pd - What do the natives of Green- nn(l use instead of chewing gum? 2. In what Shakespearean play 'is Cassius a character? 3. Who were the “Forty-niners?” 4. What is the abbreviation for “merchandise”? 5. What is the area of Monaco? ANSWERS 1. Whale skin. 2. “Julius Caesar.” 3. Gold seekers who went to Cal- ifornia after the gold strike of 1848. 4. mdse. 5. Eight square miles. — - SHOP IN sunEAU: Pay’n 'l‘alut Groceries, Meats, PROFESSIONAL 1 Ray, Medical Gymnastics FRIDAY MARCH 27, 1936 | 807 GOLDSTELN BLDG. Stimulating and inspiring plan-| | Phone Office, 216 etary influences are active today, according to astrology. It is time for big business affairs to assume heavy national responsibilities, the secers RS. KASER & FREEBURGER | forcast. | DENTISTS i Good feeling ‘regarding financial: | Blomgren Building | PHONE 56 | and enterprise will engage the ener-| | Heurs 9 am. to 9 pm. | gies of American merchants and|® i manufacturers. Preparation for great events and exacting conditions Dr C P Jerme ; { affairs will prevail, it is prcdlcled" | is to be en- “ DENTIST | couraged subtly by those Lo_ yvhoml Rooms 8 and 9 Valetine Neptune imparts the true vision of | Building | the future. 1| 2 | Many gatherings of leading men ‘, TELEPHONE 178 will discuss international affairs, — = = it is prognosticated. Diplomacy w.li be imperative. American ambassa- Dr. Rxchard WI"lamS dors and ministers will win fame. i ‘Women should keep in the back- DENTIST ground while this configuration pre- OFFICE AND RESIPENCE vails, for the stars encourage them Gastineau Building to concentrate on domestic interests. Phone 431 In this way many will serve the country. Astrologers who read the stars! that are believed to presage war| | find in this spring quarter certain menacing signs. Japan, Australia,| | Hours 9 am. to 6 p.m. i[ SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469 | Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST | i Turkey, Arabia, Poland and Ruman- ia are all under evil portents. Again a political assassination -in Europe is propnesied. Fires and ex- | plogions also are prognosticated. | Crime is to become even more dar- | and better organized than ni‘ TELEPHONE 563 | Office Hours—9-12; 1-6 | (ing ‘has been. Dr. W. A. Rystrom | Failure of a bank or other large DENTIST | |nnan'-ml institution may cause Over First National Bank | ! much distress in a certain part of | X-RAY | ‘I.he country. The wise will be care- ful in making investments and will heed warnings against speculation. Persons whose birthdate it is have ! the augury of a year of pleasures of many sorts. Money affairs should be satisfactory. f | Children born on this day prob- ably will be quick-witted, resource- ful and tempermental. Subjects of this sign have great and varied pos- sibilities. | General A. W. Greely, Arctic ex- plorer, was born on this day 1844. Others who have celebrated it as a birthday include Genevieve Ward, actress, 1833; Henry Smith Carhart, physici: 1844.—(copyright, 1936). - - FULL HOUSE “You can gei a FULL HOUSE | Robert Simpson, Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthaimology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground DR. H. VANCE OSTEOPATH 1 Consultation and examination | Free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; | 7 to 9:30 and by appointment. Office Grand Apts., near Gas- tineau Hotel. Phone 177 GENERAL MOTORS and for a dollar or less — and It's a 2 ¥ i MAY s Winner! Ask your liquor dealer.” TAG PRODUCT! —adv. W. P. 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SHOP IN JuncAU! —— o “WORK GUARANTEED” | | G The B. M. Bank ), Behrends beyond that figure but has already placed billions in the pockets of workers employed directly on the ground and for material manufacture, often in factories far distant from the project itself. TEACHERS QUERY LANDON. According to Associated Press dispatches from Topeka, Gov. Alfred M. Landon continued in his refusal to reply to, or even comment upon, a telegram addressed to him by officials of several national scholastic organizations in annual convention in St. Louis, asking his position on education “if elected President of the U. 8. The telegram, signed by George A. Davis, secretary- treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers, en- dorsed by Willard E. Givens, secretary of the Na- vote taxes with which to meet the expenditures they have approved.—Philadelphia Bulletin. i | | i | for industry threatens to become asthmatic.—-Buffalo Courier-Express. to doubt that poker was invented in America.—De- | troit Free Press. | | can't find anybody who can retire on his winnings. Bang goes another hope!—Boston Globe. { It’s pretty tough on legislators to ask them to! In view of the Federal law plan, the breathing spell As we read the political news for Europe we begin | Grantland Rice, after a long study of race bemng,i Athens’ offer to pay a little something on the war Juneau, Alaska COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS Resources Over Two and One Half Million Dollars debt ‘should be snapped up without demur. This is no tional Education Association, and Clyde R. Miller,!time to beware of Greeks bearing gifts.—Detroit News. | WARRACK | | Construction Co. |' | Juneau Phone 487 —_— ZORIC DRY CLEANING ® Soft Water Washing [ J H. B. 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