The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 14, 1936, Page 4

THE-DAILY ALASKA'EMPIRE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1936. hope thi decide to go back through: th for program material under the heading “pol files Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER Editor and Manager | ;.. gamilton and his retinue travels about the Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE country in a great air liner expounding the gospel PRINTING COMPANY at Secon€ and Main Streets, Juneau. I()f his boss, Governor Landon, ind)cating. if nothing else, that the campaign fund is in good order. Office in Juneau as Second Class Entered in the Post matter. - We note the Republican badges are yellow. Not SUBSCRIPTION RAT Delivered in carrier In Juaeau and Douslas for $1.25 per month, |8 tinge of red salmon anywhere. By mail. postage paid, at the following rates: | One vear, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; | one month. in advance, §1.25 Subscribers will eonfer a favor if they will promptly notify | the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones Tense Days in Europe (Cincinnati Enquirer) | Three airplanes, identified circumstantially. as MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. |part of Italy's air-mobing fleet, are driven down in a The Associated Press Is axclusively entitled fo the use for gale on the coast of French' Morocco. Investigation republication of all news disphtches credited to it or not other official® dis wise credited In this puber and also the local news published| 0N the part of French offigial® discovers machine herein guns, ammunition, and Italign milltary papers aboard ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | ¢ Planes. Their dcvs”m“‘on A ERei), MoTteeo, THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. | Members of the Spanish military Right Front, cen- = . | tered in Morocco, néed munitions to send to-the rebel lattack on Madrid. Italy is suspected.of. sending sup- News Office, 602; Business Office, 374 Iplies to aid the Fascist campaign against Spanish | | loyalists. ‘A report is circulated that the uneasy Left Wing of the Frerich Government may see fit:to supply arms to Spanish Leftists. The British fleet in Span- ish waters is reenforced by warships sent from Malta German and Portuguese battleships skim the coast | of Spain. The number may be increased. A potential crisis is foreseen, one which may blow the top off the European powder keg. | In Washington, officials of the State Department look with anxiety on this turn of events. While prac- |tically every European country expresses sympathy {for the two Spanish factions, the United States con- (tents itself with assisting nationals in their evacuation |from Madrid, helding battleships in readiness to re- FACTS NOT FANCIES Things certainly are going to pot under the New Deal. That is, if one believed the calamity howls But it is interesting to weigh the facts of the present day that are emanating from the opposition camp. against the propaganda which emanates from certain Republican strongholds, and dates back in most in- stances to those days they like to refer to and which most of us know as “before Hoover.” ‘Take for conerete example the current Dun-Brad- street report which is based on fact and not Repub- lican fancy. Decline in' eommercial failures are at the lowest figure since post-war boom days of 1920, says the report released by Dun-Bradstreet yesterday through the Associated Press. During vhe month of July just past there was the lowest monthiy wris! of failures since September 1920 and a coiitinued rate of decline is revealed for the first week in August. July failures numbered 639 compared with 902 in the corresponding month of last year and with 2,596 in July, 1932, around the peak of the depression liquidation movement, It does not require any great memory to recall how business houses and financial institutions in this nation were cracking like popcorn on a hot grid four years ago; how panic was sweeping the land after 12/years of Republican rule. The Landon boys would like to skip it and deal in fancy rather than fact, but the peoplesof the country, are too well aware of that disaster. They know what it cost them indi- vidually, in cash, in worry, in failure, disappointment, and plain old-fashioned ruin for hundreds of thou- sands. They ery about the public debt and talk in big figures. But the average person knows how much money was in his pocket in 1932 and how much is in it today. Every business man knows the difference between 639 commercial failures for the entire country during the month of July which is now only 14 days old and 2,596 business faflures for the same month four years ago when this country was wallowing in the throes of the Republican-created depression. Facts are sometimes bitter for those on whom they reflect. It happens that the business facts are the blackest mark on the Republican record in half a century. Consequently, the boys who spread the propaganda against the New Deal like to play around with fanciful flights of words. They like to recall Coolidge or Lincoln, or, perhaps, Alexander Hamilton, he's been dead a long time, too. They fight shy of a chap called Herbert Hoover, who put the American people on the spot. But the American people are not going to forget it was another man by the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who came along and took them off that spot and through Demo- cratic principles put the nation back on its feet and rehabilitated its people. Put it back on its feet, it should be made plain, where today we have 639 busi- ness faflures instead of 2596 four years ago. STRICT NEUTRALITY Again the United States has taken a position similar to the one which proved so successful during the Italo-Ethiopian—a position of strict neutrality. While custody is given our Nationals to safety, Uncle Sam will have no part or parcel of the conflict in Spain where bitter Civil War has been raging for more than three weeks. It is an excellent position, and one which can make Americans feel proud of the fact that we have men at the head of our government with the vision and the wisdom not to get involved in foreign en- tanglements. There are those who feel that such a course tends to build a barrier around the United States and isolates us from the international picture, thus pointing the nation toward decline rather than rise as a world power. But in view of our recent ex- perience across the seas which terminated with many American headstones on the fields of France, it is difficult for the average American to grasp such a viewpoint. " No person nor nation loses prestige by remaining aloof from a conflict not of their own making. We are not cringing in fright by remaining neutral. We are, rather, placing ourselves in an enviable position before the whole world. It was old Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany who said that treaties were only scraps of paper. Since he set the example by breaking them, it has been proven many times that he was right in his statement, though entirely at fault for his action. League of Nation agreements, pacts and accords are only slips of paper on which is written the opinions of men. If other men differ the result is what we see today in Europe—chaos. Thus does the course of strict neutrality now being steered by President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull stand out as the clear and.true course in contrast with the bitter differences which ‘are ripping Europe LS R Vs dio_sf ‘boast, that every word ever spoken over their microphones have been filed. We |ceive them at Valencia. Certain American commer- | cial interests may see potential profits to be gained from this state of affairs; but to the average Ameri- can, the European crisis is a far-distant drama enacted in true photoplay fashion on an almost unfamiliar stage. The situation is as it should be. That European nations should be so disturbed now is readily under- standable. In conservative France citizens: view. with alarm the Nazi stronghold of Germany; the distance from Paris to Berlin may be covered by train in | twenty hours, and only four hours by air., The French capital is about equidistant from Madrid and from London. Socialistic, Communistic, and Fascist in- fluences in other countries are a source of constant concern to the French Government. They appear only slightly less dangerous to Rritain. Nationalism is an inbred characteristic of Euro- pean peoples. Frenchmen still remember with dread the German occupation of Paris in the Franco-Prus- sian War of 1870. Neither Spain or Italy has for- gotten the occupation of Naples, Milan, and Madrid by Napoleonic armies in the early 1800's. Young chil- dren are brought up to recognize and fear potential antagonism on the part of neighboring peoples. Poli- tically and commercially European countries guard their colonial possessions with hawk-like intensity. To the average individual civil wars and exterritorial aggression are constantly threatening national se- curity. Attacks by another nation are understood to mean not only a loss of men and money, but also of national prestige. European history dates sixteen hundred years, beyond American history. The slow growth to inter-| {national power began with the Caesars and has not yet ended. American history virtually began with | the discontent of the Pilgrim Fathers and substantiat- ed itself with the American Revolution and the War of 1812, But, being Anglo-Saxons,'we bear no enmity toward ‘our British cousins; Canada and the United States are on amicable terms. We do not hate the, Spaniards because of the Cuban and Philippine Wars, ‘We should remain neutrally amicable with those who live across the Atlantic. We are likely to gain more by peaceful than by warlike means. 1 | | | The All-Steel Home (New York Times) The widespread attention that the prefabricated all-steel house at Park Avenue and Thirty-ninth Street has been attracting is a gratifying sign of the | interest that has been awakened in the general public by the housing problem. Public authorities have tended to. concentrate too exclusively on slum’clear- ance and multi-family dwellings. An enormous part of American housing, however, is and will continue to be single-family units. Unfortunately, the 'greater number of these at present are not only inadequate but tasteless and ugly. 1 The problem of this type of housing for suburban and rural districts can never be satisfactorily solved by subsidies. The most promising approach is through the cooperation of first rate architects and téchnicians, who will experiment with new materials and new building methods. The new all-steel house is a prom- ising step along these lines. Designed by William Van Alen, architect of the Chrysler Building, it con- tains eight good-sized rooms, a sun terrage, -a built-in garage, an oil furnace, air-conditioning, ™and" every possible new electric gadget in its Kkitchen. It is truly “a machine for living in,” and 'its.lies -and general appearance are esthetically satisfying. Its | sponsors assert that it can be built for:$10,000, The advocates of all-steel private houses will have a good deal of skepticism to overcome on the part of a public that will want to know how such houses will resist corrosion and rust and provide insulation, and what the relative costs and advantages of steel will be as compared with lumber, bricks, concrete and other materials. But such skepticism is no greater than that confronted by any new development, and the public is more open-minded now toward new methods of housing construction than it has ever been before, The Real Reason For Reactionary ()bjectionsI (Philadelphia Record) Even President Roosevelt’s voice is ob to the reactionary anvil chorus.; 1 5 A Hearst editorial, in the New York Evenifig Jour- nal, calls him a “crooner.” The New -York Herald Tribune finds “the honey of the President’s voice seems a little sticky and insincere.” . ' 3 Landon’s voice, however, is found by ‘the<Herald Tribune to have “the refreshment of a tin di T, of cool water . . . after so much rhetorical sweet’ cham- pagne and essence of wormwood.” And the Portland Oregonian finds it “as common as.the Kansas soil. He might have been talking to a farmer at the fence.” Unfortunately for this “folksy” build-up, a pro- Landon paper, reveals that it wasn't g3 farmer at the fence at all, but a coach in the stahds at Topeka — a professional coach who had worked on Landon's voice for weeks, and who signaled him, not with a tin dipper but with a white hat, when he was talking too loud. Of course, the real reactionary objections are not to the quality of Mr. Roosevelt's voice—but to the fact that when he speaks he speaks straight from the shoulder, and when he says something, he means it— And that after he promised the American people | jectionable | 1 recovery and reform, in his fireside talks back in 1933.‘ he kept BOTH promises, On land or at sea President Roosevelt salls true to character. When he runs into a fog ha chaigest: L his course.—~Toledo Blade. Ot course,” those dissatistied’ with the financial policies Of thigigountry could go over to Finland.— Louisville Courier-Journal. BIRTHDA Y| 20 YEARS AGO The Empire ertenas congratula- tions and best wishes today, their birthday anniversary, to the /ollmu-‘ ing: I From The Einpire AUGUST 14, 1916. Police investigators in San Fran- cisco announced that the person who assisted Warren Billings in the Preparedness Day Parade bomb- ing, would be behind the bars with- in 10 hours. Four other persons fl\ besides Billinngs had been arrested | thus far -a§ rpetrators of the { plot, M, an Q}c, Thomas Mooney, { Iskaél ' 'Weinbdrg, antt Edward No- land. Wi AUGUST 14. Mrs. Howard Stabler Mrs. Ross W. Swift Jackie Michaels Roy Smith . LOOK and LEARN By A. C. Gordon & p N Official advices stated. that the 1. 'In"'what year was the first| Kaiser had been on the Western U. S. postage stamp issued? | front and General Von Hinden- 2. What is the name for the side| burg and the Emperor paid a visit of a right-angled triangle opposne{ to Kovel, which place Hindenburg to the right angle? 4 geplared must be held to the last 3. What is the greatest of fhefgun. tragedies of Shakespeare? - ustrians were retreating before 4. What bird do the Chinese| _ train for fishing? rA 5. What is the capital of Aus: F’q’innnral Letchitsky and the lines tria? held by them for almost a year thad crumbled. It was officially f announced that the entire Austrian 1847 IIront. was in full retreat The hypotenuse. | “Hamlet.” | The cormorant. Vienna. | Petrograd announced that the ANSWERS Mrs. Elmer A. Friend and Mrs. | Harry H. Townsend entertained | at a bridge-tea honoring Mrs. Har- | ley Turner, a recent bride. Honors at bridge went to Mrs. Walstein Smith and Mrs. Charles White. e DAILY LESSONS | Mr. and Mrs. William Holzheim- 'er had taken up residence in one | IN ENGLISH 1 | of the Carlson houses on Sixth By W. L. Gerdon | Avenue between Gold and Harrs Streets. Words Often Misused: Do not’ say, “His wife served an elegant dinner.” Say “an excellent din- ner.” Seeley's new drug store, The Busy 'Ccrner, opened for business. The new store was entirely modern in Often Mispronounced: Incident- every respect and a credit to the ally. Pronounce in-si-den-tal-li, city. all I's as in it, and five syllables, ' not in-si-dentli. H stel s ial Treas- Often Misspelled:: Umbrella; two u:’::h:?(? s(::m:f]:e:::rolzlcal George s enroute to Indianapolis to attend feminine, 4o convention af the Natfonal Tax Gl womanlike, agsociation. He had ben appoint- ladylike 2 ed delegate for Alaska to the con- Word Study: “Use a word three ‘,Cmmn_g times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Undaunted; fearless; intrepid. “Their undaunted courage carried them to victory.” D MODLERN Synonyms: Female, womanly, H. S. Graves, clothing merchant, who had a store on Lower Front Street, was planning to move into the location then occupied by the Juneau Drug Store as soon as it was vacated by the latter concern. School opened in Juneau prompt- ly at 9 o'clock in the morning of this day. Sixty-four pupils had ETIQUETTE registered in the high school and Ry Roberta L Y b many more were expected within B ——————————————>—Wi the first two weeks. Mr. L, D. Hen- Q. When a girl is carrying“a derson, principal of the school, stat- great many packages and meets a ©€d that three new subjects had been man of her acquaintance on the added to the curriculum. They were street, who offers to carry them; General Science, Botany, and Man- should she give all of them to him? Ual Training. Besides these the A. If many packages, give him high school was offering Public only the larger and heavier ones, SPeaking and Commercial subjects If only two or thrée packages, 16’ @5 Well as the regular “three R's.” him carry all of them. ; Q. How should the card of a Weather: Maximum, 56; doctor or a surgeon read? Mum, 48; Cloudy, rain. A. Charles M. Matthews, M.D, tlon, 36 inch. or, Dr. Charles M. Matthews. ' Q. Is it poor taste to make a call late in the evening. A. Yes. Mini- Precipita- GARBAGE HAULED Reasonable Monthly Rates E. 0. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 Phone 4753 - Southern States have set up @ training school for traffic offi- | cers, X New York Life INSURANCE KEITH G. WILDES Phone 2701 Ludwig Nelson WATCHMAKER and JEWELER Juneau, Alaska HOTEL ZYNDA ELEVATOR SERVIOR 8. ZYNDA, Prop. HARRY RACE. Druggist “The sqnlhb Stores of Alaska” GENERAL MOTORS and MAYTAG PRODUCTS W. P. JOHNSON (‘ompoundeq ' exactly W. “Red” WRIGHT PLASTERING STUCCO Telephone 316 as written Juneau Drug Co Bank [ Juneau, Alaska COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS Resources Over Two und One Half Million Dollars Horoscope | “The stars incline but do not compel” —_— o PHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics 307 GOLDSTEIN BLDG. Phone Office, 216 SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1936 « Threatening aspects are seen in | the horoscope for today, according to astrology. The stars encourage 5 - escape from business cares and|| DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER serious pursuits, | DENTISTS The spirit of unrest and uncer-|| Blomgren Building tainty may be prevalent and con-! PHONE 56 centration upon important mat-|| Hours 9 am. to 9 p.m. ters| difficult. This is one of the|* days when it is wise to wait upon coming events in national affairs. Women may find the date aus- picious for informal entertainingi and for mild recreations including|| flirtation with midsummer ac-|’ quaintances. Ea There is a sign read as promis- ing to dealers in souvenirs and in merchandise that appeals to tour- ists. Purveyors of women's wear should profit. Changes in fashions will benefit milliners and hairdressers in the; autumn when there will be a trend| toward elaboration and extrava- gance in the new modes. Warning is given that there may be an epidemic of skin diseases, due to germs as well as poisonous, vegetation to which there is likely to be unusual susceptibility. Neptune is in an aspect supposed to presage increase in the use of | drugs and intoxication to an ex-|| tent producing serious effects cn' health. Hospitals'and sanitariums gre fo be largely patronised byl oyer pirst National Bank victims of narcotics and alcohol. | X-RAY There is a sign that is read as|., likely. to promote peace with for-| - eign powers, but dangerous con-|'? DR. RAE LILLIAN CARLSON: ditions are foreseen because of the' : 3 . i Optometrist position of the Moon and Venus, Eyes Examil:led, Glasses Fitted in Scorpio Office in Ludwig Nelson's Persons whose birthdate it is have ! Jewelry Store the augury of a rather trying year. Losses are foretold and domestic| problems are indicated. t Children born on this day prob- ably will be strong in mind and body. Subjects of this sign usually have decided opiniol and turesome characters. H Charles G. Leland, American au- | thor, was born on this day 1824.' { Others who have celeberated it as la birthdaty include Walter Hines Page, editor and diplomat, 1855; Walter Crane, English painter, | 1845. | (Copyright, 1936) - - Dr. C.P. Jenne Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building TELEPHONE 176 | Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building Phone 431 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469 i TELEPHONE 563 Office Hours—9-12; 1-6 | DENTIST | | (4] | Robert Simpson, Opt. D. | Graduate Los Angeles Col. lege of Optometry and Opthalmology | Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground | Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third ( | | DR. H. VANCE W TELEPHONE DIRECTORY ] e OSTEOPATH To be issued September 1 and | consultation and examination |forms close August 22. For space |free. Hours 10 to 12; .1 to 8 | {or listings please call Juneau and | 7 o 9:30 by appointment. | !Douglas Telephone Company. adv. | Office Grand Apats., near Gas- | % & | tineau Hotel. Phone 177 | [ e S Rice & Ahlers Co. |} HEATING PLUMBING | SHEET METAL WORK | PHONE 34 | H. B. FOss COMPANY PHONE 107 JUNEAU B e TSR ARCHITECTS--CONTRACTORS TYPEWRITERS RENTED | $5.00 per month Dr. W. A. Rystrom | PROFESSIONAL * | Fraternal Societies L ; of Gastineau Channel B. P. 0. E. ELKS meets every 2nd, 4th Wed. a¥ 8 p. m. Visiting brothers] welcome. WALTER P. SCOTT, Exalted Ruler M. H. SIDES, Secretary. | KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and ‘ last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urged to at- tend, Council Cham- \ bers, Fifth St. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K, H. J. TURNER, Secretary MOUNT JUINEAU LODGE NO. 1 Second and fourtl Monday of each mont} / in Scottish Rite Temple, b beginning at 7:30 p. m. MARTIN S. JORGEN SEN, worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. The Juneau Laundry Franklin Street between Front and Second Streets PHONE 358 WARRACK Construction Co. Juneau Phone 487 p& If you enjoy indoor sports— Here’s one of the best—TRY BOWLING! BRUNSWICK BOWLING ALLEYS Rheinlander and Alt Heidelberg BEER ON TAP EQ - | Guy Smith innucs PUROLA REMEDIES PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- FULLY COMPOUNDED Front Street Next Coliseum PHONE 97—Free Delivery McCAUL MOTOR COMPANY Dodge and Plymouth Dealers J. B. Burford & Co. “Our doorstep is worn by satisfied customers” Rhoda May Clark Foot Correctionist 517 Goldstein Building PHCNE 564 Stratton & Beers MUNICIPAL ENGINEERS SURVEYORS VALENTINE BLDG. Telephone 502 For very prompt LIQUOR DELIVERY e SPECIALIZING in French | and Italian Dinners the BEST! If you're out to please the man of the family . . . let us help jou! A grand selection of good food vegetables and all the things that men like best. 'Gastinean Cafe Short Orders at All Hours PHONE 83 or 85 Sanitary Grocery “The Store That Pleases” GARLAND BOGGAN Hardwood Floors Waxing Polishing Sanding PHONE 582 FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES GAS — OILS JUNEAU MOTORS Foot of Main Street . PHONE White Spot LIQUOR STORE PHONE 655 i l Free 'Delivery PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Thomas Hardware Co. | When in Need of DIESEL OIL—UTAH COAL GENERAL HAULING STORAGE and CRATING CALL US JUNEAU TRANSFER Phone 48 Night Phone 4703 | | | Juneau Ice Cream Parlors Ice Cream, Soft Drinks, Candy | COFFEE SHOP Percy Reynolds, Manager 7 | RELIABLE TRANSFER | Our trucks go any place any time. A tank for Diesel Oil and a tank for Crude Oil | save burner trouble, PHONE 149; NIGHT 148 | WHEN IN A HURRY CALL COLE FOR OIL! 34 plus or 27 gravity, in any amount . . . QUICK! COLE TRANSFER Phone 3441 or Night 1803 | | “The Clothing Man” Home of Hart Schaffner and Marx Clothing 1f It's Paint We Have It! IDEAL PAINT SHOP FRED W. WENDT PHONE 549 Watch and Jewelry Repairin, PAUL BLOEDHORN at very reasonable rates o E PO | T Fmpire ads are read.