The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 9, 1937, Page 4

4 e e . e i e e ‘Daily Alaska Empire ROBERT W. BENDER - - Editor and Manager RE except Sunday by Published evety evenir : PRINTING COMPANY i Main Street$, J Alaska, Entered in the F Office enu 0§ ond Clas: matter. $1.25 per month By mail, post ¢ One year, in ad ice, $6.00 ome month, in ad Subscriber promptly notity the Business Of in the delivery of their papers Teiep o 602;: Busiuess Office, 374 OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Asso exclusively entitled to che use for ches 1 (o it o reputiication wise credited in herein. other- 1 Liso the lcsai b ALASEA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION AND CONCER? Dowr tion book voters lify in that city for a municipal election. The report 1 come from about the country Seattle they have just closed the registra- with the largest number of to ever qt is similar to many w indicating that great, new revived interest in govern- ment. The climax to date of the sit in last fall's general election when approximately forty- six million voters in the nation expressed their wishe he polls short time ago, Presider In his inaugural address a Roosevelt gave an idea of the trend when he said We are determined to make every American citizen the object of country’s interest and concern.” Some commentators jumped on that statement They saw in it a hint of fascism or a turn toward dictatorial government But the resuits of the last four years would tend to make that theory a bit awry There appears to be ample evidence that the ver. words of the President, “to make every American citizen the object of his country’s interest and concern are the vital thing that is 1ging about a revival of public interést in governmental affairs. When we were zooming along through those so-called boom years, which m’ rose tk interest in the the attitude th W ht better have been termed the prim- y spectacle of public 00 many persons too path existed a government will do so and so, and “they" sort of super-beings with which It is not exagg they built up as son the common voter could not cope a- tion to that sources on the old theory the easier they are to keep in line But with the advent of the Roosevelt regime there was born understanding The President revived that good old principle that govern- ment is of the people, for the people and by the people. The voter, catching the tone of the President’s policies, took a new lease on life. He dropped the “they” idea and decided his vote counted just as much as the others. Result was that boom in registration figures was reported from every city and hamlet until it reached that record-smashing vote of last November. That same keen interest in govern- ment affairs continues from Seattle the condition was fostered in some that the fewer the voters say a new of government encouraging to grow as the report reveals. The key to the revived public interest can be found in those policies of the present administration which seeks to do something for that third or more of the nation’s population which heretofore existed rather than lived. The to make every American citizen the object of interest and concern is giving that citizen a new realization of his opportunities and his duties to his country Therefore, es forth without hesitancy to voice his beliefs at the ballot box when the occasion It is the most healthy situation this nation has known since the reconstruction period after the Civil War. There is no reason to worry about Fascism. Communism or any other ism so long as the American people keep up the present keen and vital interest in government affairs he s: arises PROMOTING GOOD HEALTH Cleanliness may or may not be next to godliness as the old barber shop signs have always assured us but the evidence is fairly strong over the years that lack of cleanliness is part of our sickness, dis h sponsible for the major and lack of good I se 1 (Assoclated published ~ | condition. fact that his government is tryinz RIVER RAVAGES INDUSTRIAL SECTION The Ohlo river in one of the worst floods on record poured muddy water through the arteries of trade ot Loulsville, Ky. The picture shows the Louisville railroad shops and warehouses deserted to the flood. | Revelations by medical science and general dissipa- | tion of ignorance among the majority of the popula- | tion has tended in more recent years to improve the but there is yet much work to be done to situation further promote good health. What appears to be a definite step in that di- rection is the new health and sanitation code pro- posed for the Territory in the bill introduced yester- day in the Territorial House of Representativ J. P. Anderson of the First Division. This measure is n Alaska barriers against the rad regulations that have been found beneficial in the States. It goes into vir: all problems of sanitation—water, milk, res- meat markets, canneries, €os- metology establishments hospitals. and so on. It seeks the root of the evil of poor health, which, all, is the right place to begin a remedy for any aimed to put into effect similar of disease to tually taurants, food stores hotels |2 As the result of extending the national good-health policy to the Territory in the last year, the Territorial Department of Public Health has been greatly ex- panded with the sole aim of giyin lth advantages that Wisterjt, fin! the. States, | o further the am and canse it to function at |its maximum a sound sanitation code is essential | Good h h is the of good living {and as the present members of the Legislature de a they can do well' to a sound' Alaskans the same | are { first requisite s attention with the various problems of Al thorough to give careful and | sanitation code | be considered the iand of snow and there are three dead in the Pacific Alaska may ce, but we note Nomhwest from severe winter weather, s by HAPPY ing: f FEBRUARY 9. ! Louise Murrish Erwin Gruber Mrs. R. L. Bernard Mrs. 1. Sowerby Mrs. Mabel Bertholl Mrs. Nadja Vestal Jeanne Jorgenson A. R. Hared Barbara Winn Ray Thomasen George Whyte Nick Kupoff Arthur L. Riendeau G. E. Krause MODERN ETIQUETTE By Rcberta Lee Q. When should the water gob- lets be filled at the dinner table? A. Immediately before the guests are called to dinner. Q. gift when receiving a written in- vitation to a baby’s christening? BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratula-| (ions and best wishes today, their | birthday anniversary, to the follow- Is one obligated to send a P 5 20 YEARS AGO Frum The Empire FEBRUARY 9, 1017 I'hat war clouds were anything but high was evidenced in Wash- ington when Secretary of Baker sent orders to the Bethlehem steel plant to cease work on all minor orders for the War Depart- ment and concentrate all available |men on the immediate production artillery. |” Reports of Lloyds, London, gave 185,000 as the tonnage destroyed by German submarines in three days, | February 5th, 6th and 7th. At |tat rate, it was figured, if. the |Germans could keep it up, they Iwould clear the seas of the world of floating vessel in four yes i of: | Members of the Democratic Di- |visional Committee who would meet lto select a candidate for the Terri- Legislature for [torial Casey, W. A. Holzheimer, Dave Hous J. F. Hurley and Harley J. | Turr Juneau; Frank Bach, | C. M. McGrath, Sitka; | Douglas land J. F. Warder, Ketchikan. | Mentioned a possible Republican for the Territorial Leg- candidate islature were Grover C. Winn, Em- met J. McKanna and James H.| King The regular meeting of the La- dies Altar Society was held at the home of Mrs. McLoughlin, Seventh| At any ra v:ufiu]mmv Court retains its dignity. | = "Ug i moces this obliga- 1t refuses to comment ltion. g s SR l Q. Is it correct to say, “Mrs The National Debt ;]‘;‘_};\\“ I think your gown is love-| P it 11y"? (New York Times) | A. No. This expression is often In his budget message last week the President used, but it is more correct to say,land Main. predicted that the upward movement of the national | 1ds today. The Government's plans call for little borrowing during the remaining months of the current[ wk ends next June), and for | (a peria fiscal year no be wing thereafter—provided revenues come up | to expectations, Congressional appropriations remain | within the budget estimates and' relief of unemploy- | ment requires no greater ocutlay than the President | now thinks it will. If his plans materialize, the Gov-| ernment will live within its income for a period of twelve months beginning next July—spending as much | as, but no more than, it takes in. In July of the fol- lowing year (i.e., July, 1938) it will begin to show a surplus of current revenues over operating costs, and to apply this surplus toward reduction of the debt outstanding | A national debt of $35,000,000,000 means, When translated into figures less astronomical in their pro- portions, a per capita debt of $270. That is a large figure compared with the debt which the country | carried before the depression, and before the \M\r.l‘ From the turn of the century to the year 1916 the per capita debt was practically stationary—at about $13 Our entrance into the war changed this situation radically, as the Cavernment began to borrow heavily in order to meet the cost of a great military effort. | By midsummer of 1919 the per capita debt had shot up sud to $240 om that point it gradually de- | clined, as a series of good post-war years enabled the | Government to apply successive surpluses to debt re- duction. By the end of 1930 the debt had fallen to $130—its post-war low. Then began the series of de- pression deficits which turned the curve sharply up- ward again. At $270 the debt will just about have doubled, compared with the point at which it stood in the early days of depression Fortunately, the cost of carrying the debt has not kept pace with the increase of the principal. The President estimated in his budget message that inter- est charges on a $35,000,000,000 debt will amount during the next fiscal year to $860,000,000. That is actually less than the country paid in interest on a much maller debt in any year from 1920 to 1925 and, in fact, lightly less than the ge for the decade of the Twenties as a whole. This favorable turn of events is due to the prevailing plethora of idle funds for in- tment, and the consequent fact that the Treasury able to float even its long-term obligations at very low rates of interest. How long such rates will pre- vail cannot, of course, be predicted 1 Sl i { | Man Who Croons Marries Girl Who Yodels— | Head-line. The choir will now please rise and sing, ried; ied. ! “Oh, What Shall the vest Be?”—Washington Post.| Synonyms: Increase, enlarge, ex- ORISR ) tend, intensify, augment. In spite of stream-lining, they.say it’s.as hard as| Word Study: “Use a word three| ever to worm a pair of skis through‘the alley at the} drawing-room end of a Pullmah:—Portland Oregonian. | S | Those who sow the seeds of war apparently over- look the fact the only bumper crop they can expect is widow's weeds.—Los Angeles Times. i one of The New York Union League Club has‘annoumced | letermination to admit Democrats. to,its member- p. The choice was either #o ‘admit ocrats or to move to Maine or Vermont=Hartford rant. The good-will pacts ratified at Buenos Aires are! uct to be opened to European subscriber The western hemisphere has just about decided to live alone and | ike it.—Richmond Times-Dispatch. | “Mrs. Brown, I think your gown on was found | debt will be halted when the debt reaches $35.000,000,- |is beautiful.” The word love should 0. 7his is only slightly above the point at which it 'be used only in the sense of af-'Cure” a side-splitting comedy in fection. _— LOOK anid LEARN By A. C. Gordon 1. What is use of divorce in the U. S. 2. From whom did the United States buy the country ineluded in'were entirel; unable to accommo- these subjects of Aquarius have tal- the Louisiana Purchase? 3. How many yards are there in a furlong? expires on a document he attests? 5. What United States city had the first apartment house? ANSWERS Cruelty. Napoleon I of France. 220 yards. 4. To prevent misuse of notarial seals by persons who no longer hold commissions. A 5. Charleston, S. C., 1: 2. 3. in 1800. B _— DAILY LESSONS .. IN ENGLISH . | By W. L. Gordou ( s Words Often Misused: Dot‘x| say, “We shall be very pleased to see you,” Say, “shall be very much pleased.” Often Mispronounced: Tetanus. Pronounce tet-a-nus, e as in bet, a as in ask unstressed, us as in us, and accent first syllable, not the second Often Misspelled: Hurry; y. Hur- times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mu;u-nn(g one word each day. Todays' word: Expository; explanatory; illustra- tive. “A glossary or expository in- dex to the poetical writers.” Johnson, - Fourteen Bertie county (N.C) farmefs had a 195-pound increase in_cotton yield. i e Compounaed exactly as written by your dactor, Rehearsing for “The Banana |be given at the Lyric Theatr Douglas, were Messrs, H. E. Murra, Roy Noland and Precht, Mrs. Precht and Miss Jessie Koss. Returning to Juneau from a trip East, Judge Royal A. Gunnison, of the firm of Gunnison and Robert- % son, said, “New York City is crowd- prestige. the most common ed with people and the country is; The auto show ther |automobile mad. | which were on while I wa date the crowds. y Frank B. Cannon, who was stay- 4. Why does a notary public ing at the Hotel Zynda, was the on this day 1775. Others who have Iwrite the date that his commission first out-of-town member of the Legislature to arrive in Juneau. cloudy. War| the seat of [a |John G. Heid, deceased, were W. W.|sts lYour twelfths of $1,000, plus one-half of five-twelfths of $1,000. If during the year 1936 the hus- band or the wife had the status of the head of a family prior to their marriage he or she ‘would be |enmlcd to his or her prorata share |of the personal exemption of $2,- |I ncome |500 allowed the head of a family Tax 1 M \for the period prior to their mar- Exemptions Are Allowed |riage instead of merely that al. - % {lowed a single person. CO_UPICS Married Dur: However, for the period of their ing Taxable Year | H oroscope “The stars incline but do not compel” WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10, 1937 In the early hours of this day adverse aspects ——are active, ac- cording to astrology, but later bene- tic influences are strong. marriage any exemption to which This should be an uncommonly either might be entitled as the head lucky day for women of every class,| Taxpayers should note that un- 0f a family would be merged in especially for those who are lead-ider the Revenue Act of 1936, the the joint personal exemption for ers in business or the learned pro-|credit for dependents as well as|that period. fessions. the personal exemption is required| The joint personal exemption al- Feminine talent for organizing|to be prorated where a change of loWable in the case of a couple and reforming now will be in de-|status occurs during the taxable|Who Wwere married and living to- mand and in numerous American|year and, that these credits are 8ether during the entire year may cities there will be movements of allowable not only for the purpose DOt exceed $2,500. determined energy to curb civiclof comparing the normal tax, but! If @ child under 18 years of age waste annd mismanagement. 'also the surtax. A fractional part|and dependent on the parent for This should be an auspicious of a month is to be disregarded|SUPPOrt reaches the age of 18 years {date for weddings which will be ex-[unless it amounts to more than half,during the’taxable year, the credit traordinarily numerous this year. a month, in which case it is con-| 0f $400 for a dependent is re- sons of middle age and those in|sidered a month. {quired to be prorated in the same inced years will marry, for the| For example, a single man and a!manner as the personal exemp- presage dread of loneliness as|single woman, who were married on oD world changes multiply. July 20, 1936, and were living to- For example, should the child's | Warning is given that the habit|gether on the last day of the tax-|¢ighteenth birthday fall on June of looking backward is most de-|able year, may file a joint return./30. the parent would be entitled structive to progress and in the|If they file their return or re- to claim $200 credit for the de- new era altered customs and stan-|turns on the basis of the calendar|Pendentn child—that is, one-half |dards of living must be accepted.|vYear, they would be entitled to a $400. The same rule applies to | Self-deception may be prevalent!Personal exemption of $2208.34,|0ther dependents where a change under this sway which inclines both|Which is seven-tweliths of $1,000/0f status occurs during the tax- men and women to be lenient to- fOr the husband while single, plus able year. wards their own faults while theyfie;m ;welftxhsl of lsumo for me‘,, » lcriticize the weaknesses of others,|Wife, when single, plus five-twelfths VE CHND Conflicts of opinion may be bit- 0f $2500 for the period during | [ EDSON WAVE SHOP iter today which may be marked | Machine and Machineless PERMANENT WAVES > | which they were married. | :by heated discussions in Congress and surprising votes on important measures. If separate returns are filed, each is entitled to a personal ex- emption of $1,104.17, which is seven- Ask about FREE RADIO ! Room 6, Valentine Bldg. 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