The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 22, 1937, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, FEB. 22, 1937. w— — D l l A E ‘ fairly certain that the sinking of American H A P P Y L /4 aska r.m )Lre ships would bring the United States into the auny I s it e 0 wint | —=BIRTHD A ¥|| 20 YEARS AGO Hovestsbe ROBERT W. BENDER - - Edilor and M‘”““" matter. Counting everything, the United p i ey e States Army couldn’t add up to more than The Emplre extends congr From The Empire 4 PRI CORPANY at Sedr 100,000 men, and the National Guard, al- tions and best wishes today, ‘ “The stars inclice ~ GRas. = iR gh streng ¢ border service, had birthday anniversary, to the !a!low» -~ - » Q Alaska. | though strengthened by 8 i but do not compel ; " Eotered In the Post Office in Juie only 150,000 part-time soldiers on its rolls. ing: A FEBRUARY 22, 1017 | matter. : The United States Navy was just starting to Administratibn ottiolals; - Saliee FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 22— NASHV!LLE, Tenn, Feb. 22. — ! ol SUBSCRIPTION RATES. get into shape under the building program FEBRUARY 22. . ling both President Wilson and Sec-| TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1937 | Lne Christian Science Church was Firemen are burrowing through ! Delivered In earrier in Junean and Douglas for $1.25 per month. | adopted in 1916, Corrine Duncan retary of State Lansing, were not Aivetse Dinnately. scedts. iy swept by fire yesterday morning tons of debris in efforts to recover ! By mail, postage paid, at the followizs rates sabhl Those February days saw the German Mrs. Ed Jahoda disguising the fact that the Ger-|gironoly today, according to astrol- and badly wrecked. Damage is es- the bodies of three comrades, Lieut. Oue vear, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance. 3690 | gyhmarines nosing out from their bases along Robert Jernberg o situation was growing graver| o n@y loday, according to astrol*timated at $2,000. The church car- J. O. Keefe, Pipemen Charles Oben- one month, in advance, §1.25 N i et d Y 4 ¢ man situs ogy. It is & day when the world|,jeq 3 3 Subscribers will confe or if t promptly notify the North Sea with orders to sink every- { Evelyn Claire Hollmann and that if orders were issued to|may appear & Ge a8 s Tk ried insurance. chain and Tom Maddin, trapped the Business Ofrice ot uny faflure or {rreqularity in the delivery| * thing in sight. Ship after ship felt the blast Mrs. J. A. Hellenthal the German submarines to Prevent|put abbsondency should oy Stun:[. . The fire started from an over- while fighting a fire which desiroy- O Helephones: News Office, 602; Bus Office, 374 of their torpedoes and Englishmen began to e S e oy tmtFanl. cbia | e nde v XY (SRS ive non o o Wnitivg in e BiblicEtiere i R OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, wonder what, if anything, they were going to el S e | vent war. r;izcafflx;;]ta ?m}-] AT AU S and damaged three others this Press is exclusivel itled to tue ase for eat. S - MRS. forenoon. Chief F. B. Moore said « patch:s credited to it or not other- On land, February, 1917, saw the begin- MODERI\ 'l\ coladiscs B e of lieved to be accentuated while this MRS. SULLIVAN IS %1 nape I¥ abEnashed. L and also the local news published | ping.of the German retreat to the Hindenberg . Exegpises in, honor ¢ o |contiguration prevails. Those who| ~ENTERTAINING TODAY s AR . i ks B KA ETI UE"[‘TE Washington were held in the Par-la.e wise will compare their con- TR AMSKA CIRCULATION GUAIRIANTEED TO BE LARGER Line. All winter the German forces in France £ ool _ OU'A‘ ~ABE THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. had been building this powerful defensive line ochial School. dition with that of dwellers in many Mrs. 3 WHTER- o o s . " & By Rebert Lee | o foreign lands. Mrs, ‘O. S. Sullivan is ;spending TS, immons, : wife' of the ten to fifteen miles back of their positions. y teberta | i i A th the holid: customns representative ‘at Whito. On February 24 they began to pull back to The following were on the pro-| ynqustry may be hampered by, the ay today entertaining a ? g-at = this line, intending to sit tight there while |3 % |gram of the Musical Art Club held|yeather conditions which affect|RUmber of friends at her home. ;‘;M’M‘""'M“ Simmons’ mother, 4 the submarines won the war. Q Is it proper for A man to|at the home of Mrs. J. W .Bur-|eansportation, for heavy storms are‘;“"‘l"e guests were present at S sri'::';;‘s- i REoNEgs 1'1\ In the east, Russia was crumbling under {ake a woman’s afm whén crossing |ford: F s Nowell, Marie Gold-|i,gjcated in many parts of the coun= \:ncheon after which bridge was south orah _ enroute R the beginnings of Bolshevism and was no a dangerous street? |stein, Mona Graves, Mrs. Fairly, |y, layed. Decorations in red and blue A ke ; | longer to be counted on as an effective factor A. No. The man should offer|Miriam McBride and Mrs. Burford.| "pood and ‘fuel will be needed f“"’:: e e o S R | in the war. The Alifed countries of the Bal- his arm, and the woman should : sorely in many places as March|'on theme. whit i T e kans had been overrun and were practically rest the palm of her hand lightly| H. W. Chutter, superintendent of|somes in which sinister influences Try anm ish é Ymesiawas e i o 1 out of the fight, too. {within the curve of his elbow. Qn- P\mtyr Bay cannery, Was On|which may increase the spread of| . : o S| ‘olumbia in 1910, In the United States, we were going about , @ Is it all right to have one's|the Admiral Farragut with a Crew|inflyenza and other diseases. our jobs, reading our newspapers and trying initials on a visiting card? |of men. The Farragut was making | hroats especially should be guard- to picture what would happen to us person- A. The faultlessly correct card @ special trip to Funter to land the|qq ally if America should be forced into the war. bears the full name. crew. Lord Rothermere of England, for-| mEsn TE | We all know now what did eventually happen,! q 1s it proper to say, “Mary xs‘ mer air minister, a subject of Tau-| ; and as one of the results we see the Congress again|vyisiting her relations” ? | Mr. and Mrs. Ed Slnnfyar of D:ug-‘ rus, may be expected to use his : el g ¢ nerkrality i Jo: say, “her reldtives.” |las were the parents of 2 son born f pondering over the question of neutrality. It is pos y . say, “her reldtives, . i 5 newspaper interests in a manner o EVER W | sible that a thorough study of those events of 20 years |at St. Anns Hospital February 19,|sreat significance to the British | Y MONDAY i NEUTRALITY, THEN D NOW ago this month might be of service to the Congress-| 3 ——— -5 government. & ] e R ] in.(-n as they attempt to build barriers against the re-| () T’.‘:' 1‘?1‘:5‘;“:““‘? Brof.he;hood Those who read the noroscope| canfomla Groc With neutrality again one of the big issues be-:occurrence of war. LOOK id LEARN ‘:.I'm\;"zhx:glon's ;lrt?xgg' o onortuf‘ Senor Azana, head of the loy-| fore Congress this session and one which already NP ; | Sy 2 alist Spanish gowemm::?t. prophe_sl)l' THE PUR.E FOODS s'ro" has divided that body into several factions, all with | *By A. C. Gordon | 5 : |that the autumn of this year wi : ., INOW >-COTPOITONS G ¢ne ciilzens' Gaslbe fortunate for him, while 1941 SNOW i Telephone 47§ REMOVING THE — e ®Company were Henry Shattuck, H. it is interesting to look back just 20| ? R : 1. What is the velocity of radio H. Post, George Irving, H. S. Ewing, The manner in which Mayor Goldstein and his Aaeh and Elmer E. Smith. M. E. Barn- taken advantage of Yes=| ., p. what state of the Union is ham. of the National Engineering work much a different idea of how neutrality might be perman-| ently gained, years ago. It was actual violation of our neutrality| at that time that led to our advent into the war. Thv!.\ll'L‘(‘L department. Prompt Delivery should bring his renewed populur-! ity. | Warning again is given that the| s stars menace both air and ocean and through this Forty and Eighter in a recent issue recalls this|and today is evident, {found the best white sand in the and Equipment Company, at the|vagigation. Extreme caution is rec- F o R lN s U R interesting picture of that time: and slush from the downtown streets is commendable. | woriq? |time in Juneau, was with the new|ommended to aviators, for accidents | “From February 1, 1917, sea traffic will be | The efforts of numerous crews working yesterday| 3. Who wrote the song “Dixie”? corporation and his company \mvmfly be numerous. " stopped with every available weapon and with- |and today is evident and through this work much| 4. What animal is the fiercest/to have charge of construction| Women today will benefit through See H- R- SHEPARD & SON ( out further notice in the following Blockade { inconvenience as well as accident hazards have been|and most bloodthirsty of beasts? | Wwork |the exercise of their executive abil- zones around Great Britain, France, Italy Bl U5, From what country did the ity in philanthropic and charitable | Telephone 409 B. M. Behrends Bank B]d!} and in the Eastern Mediterranean:— Promptly clearing the streets is a distinct aid to United States acquire the Virgin Weather: highest, 21; lowest, 18;!projects. | s These words stirred us up to great ex- b L AR i town in theIsiands? | ciear. Persons whose birthdate it is X . citement twenty years ago, or made us break those that mf"‘" walk or drive around fown 1n the | - — have the augury of a year of per- out in cold sweat. They began a memoran- |course of their business, and also is a stimulus for ANSWERS | Try The Bmpwe eciassifieds for |plexities in financial affairs which dum handed by Count Von Bernstorff (re- 1olh<~r.s to shop in the business district. Now that 3 {quick results. |may be successfully ironed out by L3 A U member him, the German Ambassacor) to | the boats are bringing many new stocks and Iresh“31{50300.0010.000 metel‘lzl. s abOUt‘ T ! paupi [ prodany REEAS ERaws Or, Selis Secretary of State Lansing on January 31 perishables to the various stores, many are eager 15000 miles, a second. 4 TV B0 ERIDIE R imnv cause anxiety. When we read them in our newspapers, we torAcH) j i\)imfl;h"sz;tts- | Cnnavesinaba o ity day peobs Every Effort Made for the a » 3 PSS 't stg o! 1 an Emm! " " 3 | knéw that the United States couldn’t stay out In addition to being a convenience, the snow re-| ,nl 2 ably will be thoughtful, impres- Comfort of ‘he Guests! FliiEe s Taligle YRS | moval is a distinct aid to business e Money Sctved sionable and scholarly. Subjects of After listing the blockade zonmes where a Bmibeeda 2 ? s g 5. Denmark. this. sign’ Ve HHA Ttk 6F Dersist. % et i i e M hrarts 1 —— is thle-slgn R MRN8 GASTINEAU CAFE its ribs without warning, the memorandum A sure sign of spring: The boys back in Congress | T— 3 - " i | George Frederic Handel, compos- 5 . went on to say just how American ships could | are beginning to use the word filibuster, revealing the DAILY IESSON Money Earned "er, was born on Gils Gay 1085 gthv in connacticn contine 1o sl e 5 gl EARN AT e ; or ' . £ ; AL 8 4 ers who have celebrated it as a L “Sailing of regular American passenger | ook 315 1 AIR QERV T steamers may continue undisturbed after Feb- 3 3 IN ENCLIQH i o I INFORMATIOI\' ruary 1, 1917, if Juneau promises to maintain its distinction & By W. L. G X A. The port of destination is Falmouth. |a leading eity with all its citizens leading a pooch y ordox ( ? “B. Sailing to or coming from that port course is taken via the Scilly Islands and a | point 50 degrees north, 20 degrees west. b o “C. The steamers are marked in the fol- | Stalin And Trotsky lowing way, which must not be allowed to i ey other vessels in American ports: On ship's around. [ Often Misused: Do not , “The people must coopemte' together.” Omit together. Cooper- ate means to act jointly with an- » n]u!hm or others. £ birthday include Samuel Pepys, English politician and diarist, 1633; Charles Heenry Fromuth, artist, - = = - el 4 1861. (Copyright, 1937) 230 South Frankli» ‘ferephone 41) Exactly 2,224 teachers are draw- | ung pensions through the California Wlnter Rates (Cincinnati Enquirer) | | ) ~~hull and superstructure three vertical stripes Seratch a Russlan and you find a Tartar, £t one meter wide, each to be painted alternately lused to be said. Mr. George Slocombe, English jour- | Often Mispronounced: Milchij ! SITKA HOT SPRINGS Distributors white and red. FEach mast should show a | nalist, in his brilliant address to the business and pro- | Pr® onounced as spelled, and not; Mineral Hot Baths large flag checkered white and red, and the | fessional group at the University Friday, changed the | | milk. 7 [Accommodatlons to suit every CHEVROLRET PONTIAC BUICK stern the American national flag. | epigram a little. atch a Bolshevik,” he said, ; Often Misspelled: Chassis (both ltas'/e. Reservations Alaska Alr “D. One steamer a week sails in each di- |“and you find a Ru: ” ; singular and plural). ‘Transport. 1 rection with arrival at Falmouth on Sunday | There is much wisdom packed into this epigram. | Synonyms: Senitity, decrepti= e from Falmouth on Wednes- 1t provides the key to many apparent paradoxes of | | tude, superannuation, old age. soviet policy in recent years; and it also throws a good | Word Study: *“Use a word three deal of light on the current, Tlong-distance, verbal {times and it is yours.” Let us in=« war between Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky. |crease our vocabulary by mastering! Trotsky is the true Communist intellectual. He ione word each day. Today's word:| is for Communism first, last, and all the time. He is Reticent; silent; reserved. “His tal-y a Communist first and a Russian incidentally; and [ent was concealed by a reticent na- he espouses world revolution as the only path to the |ture.” achievement of an enduring Communism anywhere. ! It is for this reason that he was unwilling to | sanction sacrifices of Communist theory to national | the previous April that if the German govern- |interest in Moscow. It was for this reason that he | ment persisted in unrestricted submarine war- | condemned Stalin’s cautious policy of nonintervention and departure day. “E. United States Government guarantees that no contraband (according to German contraband list) is carried by those steamers.” We boiled with indignation when we read that note. Nobody was going to tell us how we had to paint our ships and where or when we could run them. We were ready to fight. President, Wilson addressed Congress on Feb- ruary 3, describing how he had told Germany LUMBER Juneou Luiaber Mills, Inc. - e CANNEL 400DS SaLE A canned goods special will BIG VAN'S 228 Front St. be |Saturday and Monday, and Mz, fare, diplomatic relations would be severed, |in Spain. To Trotsky the upbuilding of Russia is {Goetz invites everyone to come to{ S L ¥ and making the following momentous an- |merely a means to world revolution, and not an end . his store and see it. adv.| BEPTE uflfl E" F 3 w l N n o w c L E A N l N nouncement: lin itself — e A e 3 “I have therefore directed the Secretary o of State to announce to his Excellency the German Ambassador that all diplomatic re- lations between the Uniied States and the German Empire are severed and that the Am- Stalin, although he embraces the same creed in | general, early discovered the profound truth which |ang domestic animals cost China Mr. S) mbe put so epigrammatically. He discovered | o equivalent of $40,000,000 in Unit- several years ago that Russians, even though Com- led States currency annually. munists, are still Russians, He found that Russians | e 2. Preventable diseases among Iarm PHONE 48% Pay’n Takit | Allen Shattuck many. was our enemy {from interference in China to military defense against The overt acts weren't long |Japan. We sell for CASH eriman Ambassador to Berlin will immediate- want to build a strong and prosperous Russia, no mat- ' — e S ly be withdrawn; and in accordance with this _ |ter what happens to the world revolution of Karl || PHONES 92 or 25 decision, to hand his Excellency his passports.” | Marx and Nikolai Lenin, | GENERAL MOTORS ! Free Delivery This wasn'y war, President Wilson wa: His policies are the direct result of this conclusion. | and '| Fresh Meats, Groceries, careful to explain. “Only actual overt acts, | Under Stalin, Russia has turned from foreign pro- \l MAYTAG PRODUCTS } Laquors, wings and Bee't Butler Mauro Dl'llg Co. he said, “could make us believe that Ger- | paganda to sedulous courtship of France and Brimn,‘l W. P. JOHNSON {{{ We Sell for LESS Because in coming Instead of hammering at the necessity for a On February 26, the President told Congress | socialist world, Stalin is fostering a spirit of Russian e il that two American ships had been sunk and | nationalism and a policy of cooperation with ‘demo- | o I.euder Dept‘ Store , “Tomorrow’s Styles Established 1898 asked for authority to institute a policy of cratic or anti-Fascist states. 1 e st George Brothers 7 armed neutrality. Guns and gun crews were Americans will accept the philosophy of neither. v TOdC!Y T e aife Alask placed on American merchant ships. | But as between the two, they will welcome the policies ! exactly uneau i g a It was on February 28 that we got our |which have won out at Moscow, the policies of Stalin. — next jolt from Germany. On that day the For, with all its faults, nationalism is less of a peril 88 written famous Zimmermann note was made public. |to the world of our time than the doctrine of world | by yor PHONE 36 } This, as maybe you remember, was a secret revolution by the proletariat. - youy note from Dr. Alfred Zimmermann, Germany'’s oy - dactor, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, to the German Minister in Mexico, which was captured by the United States Secret Service on the Mexi- can border. It read: “On the first of February we intend to begin submarine warfare unrestricted. In | spite of this it is our intention to endeavor to keep neutral the United States of America. “If this attempt is not successful, we For very prompt ' LIQUOR DELIVERY }|{Juneau’s Own Store (Philadelphia Record) It has been pleasant to pick up the New Masses ach week and read of impending revolution. It | | dded the final touch to enjoyment of our bourgeois | security. | But something has happened. On the back cover pro- i = of the current issue we noticed an advertisement— | _— l\\'hen Prosperity Comes to the Proletariat | ! i | Remember!!! quarters. Now il says—we quote verbatim from the advertisement—+“Get squarely a1t on your idle mon rades, does the proleta iat have idle money? | pose an alliance on the following basis with " 3 Mexico the and typography of the kind used when Inter- l E s alzgamated Ash Ci 5.l ma " : st Foit we shall make war together ang | Pational Amalgamated Ash Can, Tnc. markets a new] The B. M. Behrend If your “Daily Alaska Empire” has together ke peace. We shall give general ue. Very solemn, very dignified. Offering New’ e - - enrendas Y Y P aneial ol Masses 5 per cent two-year notes to the public. i financial sur and it is understood that 8 Mexico to conquer the lost territory in : Tllm Iu-\‘.l. .\‘I‘;(:rk“tmnv in the heading, “A Sound an nOt‘been dehvered New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. The details prosapsnt t4 Ausre, cou ihare I, Wiy SN 00 are left to you for seitlement. | nvestments Wnder capitaliam® | BY €:00 P. M. You are instructed to inform the Presi- There was a time when the New Masses passed b i e ol ariion an i R be i shiould the hat. regularly to keep ahead of the (capitalist) | Juneau, ‘Alaska communicate with Jay suggesting adher- |sheriff. There was a time when it app‘enled to offer to mediate between Germany and Japan. “Please call to the attention of the Presi- dent of Mexico that the employment of ruth- less submarine warfare now promises to com- | pel England to make peace in a few months | The remaining pacifistic and pro-German sentiment in this country meited rapidly in the heat created by the disclosure of this in- teresting communication. The scheme to have Mexico and Japan attack our south- western states really made us mad February, 1917 w the beginning of Ger- behind us—and make COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS 226 A copy will be sent you IMMED- IATELY by SPECIAL CARRIER. A majority of the big Democratic names who |were nominated to pull Roosevelt through in their localities have now recovered their wind, after run- ning hard to catch up.—Detroit News. CARDINAL CABS 25¢ Within City Limits Resources O_ver‘ Two and One-Half Million Dollars Hitler says there is more light in Germany than |in any other country. But the way he's lining up many'’s great gamble to win the war. For his troops, the future looks dark.—Dayton News. = a year she had been build submarines | &3 = & feverishly, bigger. more effect U-boat. Financial Note—Ohio River banks are e full.— and by February 1 she was re > Was Whmnmr W. Va, News-Register, i