The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 13, 1937, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1937. |52 per cent of those polled on the court plan expressed H A P p Y | H B . |a sentiment against it and 47 per cent declared for BIRTHDAY 20 YEARS AGO Horosco ne ' AT THE HOTELS l ! Pay’n Takit it, six out of every 10 polled expressed the belief that e A AT e e !the President’s program would go through while only m dept Bundey b { v ¥ Vo P The Empire ertends congratula- From T aie” bud” tata. Birosts, vanse | Sy S SO LD (SRR S WOIIE S0k tions and best wishes today, thetr el “The stars inclice PHONES 92 or 35 | In the face of these conflicting results, the Gal-| yusngay anniversary, to the ,onow_z but do not compei” Free Delivery ing: i Fresh Meats, Groceries, el il Liquors, Wines and Beer FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1937 Alasta. v lup poll reveals that the President still has a 65 per cent popular support, higher even than just before ol - : We Sell for LESS Because Benefic and adverse planetary as-|Austin, Carl Nielson, Juneau; Mr. We sell for CASH pects conflict in the horoscope for|and Mrs. Eli Sharclave, George Ke-; SUBSCH the last election when the same poll gave him 62 MAY 13 today, according to astrology. The|zak. ! Leader Dept. Store Daily Alaska Empire R | ROBERT W. BENDER - - Editor and Manager L Gastineau i P. W. Racey, Oakland; H. A. Ross,' Kensington; E. E. Mead, Point Re- treat. MAY 13, 1917. R. E. Murphy, DuPont Powder Company representative, had left for the westward on a business trip aboard the steamer Alameda. Enteree in the Post Office in J matter. 1 as Second C Alaskan i J. A, Whitely, N. P. John, H. H.| carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.25 per month. | per cent, Julia Terhune y mall. postage paid, at the following rates: i o One year, in advence, §12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; | Marvel Shearer month, in advance, $1.25. Arthur O. Thane LSelivered in B Italy's attitude in not printing anything about PUBREE I P A Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify | the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery | the British coronation might be interpreted in some! sources as “breeding a scab on Mussolini’s nose.” of their papers. Telephones: News Office Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Edwin P. Pond John McLaughlin J. R. E. Robertson, member of the law firm of Gunnison and Robert- B. Burford son, had left for the south aboard Roscoe McLaughlin 4‘”19 Jefferson. He will appear as The Z4sociatad Pres. is exclusivel entitled to the use for | republicat 1on of all news dispatches cedited to it or not other- | on despite the loss of $75,000 in the recent ice venture. So, like many others, we have decided to carry —_—— e lattorney in cases before the court wise credited in this paper and ulse the local news published | i during the present term at Ketchi- morning hours are favorable to wise decisions and to conferences on fi- nancial affairs. The planetary government is f: vorable to ocean travel. Ships are to carry heavy passenger lists all CHOIR MEETS TONIGHT George Brothers | Members of the Northern Light| Presbyterian Church choir wiil meet at 8 o'clock this evening at the. T SIGRID'S 1 BEAUTY SALON church for rehearsal. through the summer, although there will be perils presaging military clashes. This is a lucky rule for the signs ing of contracts and other legal pa- pers. It is even auspicious for di vorce decrees. Although today is read as rux'tu-l nate for seeking appointments or positions, women should not push claims to consideration. The sway is unfortunate for girls in profes- sional callings. hereln. kan { MOLCERN ETIQUETTE =31 J. F. Chumbmxra\'e]mg man, :had returned from the south on the By Roberta Lee 8 Jefferson and was stopping at the B —ii| /,Occident] Hotel, Q. When a bride-to-be is, inyit-| Luther C. Hess, Speaker of the | In his address before the American Physical So- |ed to go shopping with a friexdf te, House at the last session of the Jn ety Mr. David Sarnoff acknowledged the debt of (select a wedding present; Jwhat Legislature, left for the westward industry to the mathematical physicist. Like others, |should she do? jon the Alameda and is on his way to he found it easier to dwell on the mere obvious bene-| A. Accept the invitation as gra- his Fairbanks home overland. |fits that have flowed from the works of Maxwell, ciously as possible, then be moclnsw 5o | Hertz and Marconi than to specify the kind of society and reluctant in making the selec-, The war office announced that| Increased interest in hunting | which is best able to utilize the gifts of science and (tion. |the Zeppelin, 1-22 had been de-|which will be manifest in the sum-| invention. Q. It is correct to say, “Shall we stroyed in the North Sea, having mer is signiticant, the secers point| Democracy as we know it is a political conception go some place this evening”? been attacked by aircraft while s\t-{mn. Blood lust is a forerunner of lof the eighteenth century period when there were| A. No. One should say, “Shall tempting to drop bombs on the war and awakens the primitive in-| ‘nr steam engines, no railw no four-day trans- we go somewhere this evening?” North Sea British fleet. |stinets of man 1 |atlantic liners, no electrical ways of communicating| Q. Is it proper to have nicknames — Farmers and cattle raisers arej with one another over vast distances, no mass pro- of men or women on visiting cards? likely to have serious duction, no mass entertainment in the form of broad-| A. Never casting and movies. In Great Britain and in this| {country peoples which believe strongly in personal | and in the old freedom of speech and thought | With such men as Secretary Ickes and Dr. Gru- ening pushing the Alaska ‘developmént program we can look for achievement. ALASEA CIRCULATION GUARAM®IEED TO BE LARGER | ‘*SAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION l OUR RESPONSIBILITY” Shattuck Bldg. l } “YOUR APPEARANCE IS ! Phone 318 (New York Times) BIG VAN'S 228 Front St ,‘l Lode ang pracer 1ocaiion netlce. difficulties e e | tOF sale at The Empire Office < LINKING ALASKA TO THE ARGENTINE Secret: of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo was to make a tour through the summer when extremes! of weather droughts. of the middle west starting at Chi- cause floods ., cago, it was announced. The pu Under the heading “Linking of Alaska to the Argentine by Auto in Sight” the Christian Science Monitor in a recent issue reveals that work on the southern end the International Highway, ultimately will enable the motorist drive which | from of to | liberty |are attempting to preserve democracy and adapt it| o a society which has been profoundly changed by | these and other technical innovations LOOXK unid LEARN | pose of the trip was to emphasize the importance of making the Lib- erty Loan a suceess. Alaska to the Argentine in South America forward scenes, the article says: Motorists day-dreaming of an all-y In- ternational Pacific Highway from Alaska to Argentina expect major fruition from a plan to forge a 1000-mile link in four Mexcan states between Gu and Nogales, Ariz., thus opening the road to Mexico City from California to.match the recent comple- tion of Mexico's gateway to the northeast through La Just as white sails once were wands of ¢iv- ilization wherever pioneering barks touched strange shores, rubber tires are ready to roll permanent tread-marks of progress for Mexi- co’s beautiful interijor. Already the Central Government has con- structed a highway from Guadalajara to Mexi- co City. To surmount the obstacles of the barrancas and other wilderness hazards is the chief problem, solution of which it is hoped will pave the way for one continuous road 2217 miles from Los Angeles to the capital of the neighbor republic. Two major motor-caravan expeditions by the Automobile Club of Southern California have mapped the entire IPH. segment through the length of Mexico. These comple- mentary transversals in 1930 and 1931 were the first occasions that any automobiles have crossed the nation. Since that time isolated instances of ploneering motorists have been reported to show that the journey from Mexico City to Los Angeles is possible in favorable weather, and the automobile club charting showed only 80-odd miles in the barranca area insurpassable to amateur voyagers. It was back in 1919 that the auto club first conceived of the 13,000-mile bond between Fairbanks in Alaska and Buenos Aires in Argentina. A preliminary conference was held at that time with Mexican officials. It was not until 1929 that the club formulated ‘its plans for a mapping tour, which materialized in the following two years. It is estimated that more than $160,000 has been spent by the organization in fostering the project. At the conclusion of the second tour, the club estimated 25,000,000 pesos would be need- ed to construct a suitable right of way over the 1599 miles from Nogales to the Mexican capital. Secondary to the major problem of bridg- ing the barrancas, which are only a few miles in extent, are the points of upkeep and gradual improvement location of the road on its ulti- mate route, to avoid any rerouting According to the auto club of southern California, the United States is committed to do its full part toward completion of the 13- 000-mile project, through a $1,000,000 appro- priation already authorized by Congress to aid Latin-American countries in the purchase of construction machinery and equipment and through an additional $75,000 already provided to carry on surveys by American Bureau of Public Roads engineers So far along to actuality is the two-contin- ent route that club engineers pronounce 83 per cent, or almost 11,000 miles, are passable for pioneering motor behicles in favorable seasons, and tl estimate half this distance is graded or paved To make the longest road in the world, at least 14 nations would be placed under the wheels of motorists, who can begin their vaca- tion on the Arctic Circle, cross Canada, take the ‘scenic Pacific ‘slope route through the United States to San Diego, then inland to Guaymas on the Gulf of California, to Maz- atlan at the mouth of the gulf, inland to Guadalajara and Mexico City, skirt the Pa- cific shores once again after leaving Oaxaca, and leave Mexico for Guatemala. Then into the republic of El Salvader with a stop at San Salvador; next into Nicaragua y way of Mana 1, through San Jose into the republic of Costa Rica, and thence to Pan- ama City Once in South through Colombia the Andes Mountains Lima and Valparaiso, mountains are cre Southern terminus Amer the route leads Bogota. and then follo down through Quito, to Santiago, where the to Buenos Aires, the Linking of Alaska with the a flight of fancy the greziest highway in the world. THE PRESIDENT'S POPULARITY Despite the controversy that has been wnged\lfhvrsfMlanu (Fla.) Herald. during the last three months over the Roosevelt court | virg | last fall's election, | according to another poll that the American Insti- ine President stands today as he was at reorganization plan tually as popular is going Illustrated with Alaska and South American Argentine is no longer | Great strides have been made in | the last 17 years since the idea was conceived. An-|peace conferences, so long as they don't interfere with other 17 years may well see is driving up and down | heir preparations for war——Jack Warwick in Toledo tute of Public Opinion, directed by Dr. George Gallup has taken. Dr. Gallup in a recent article cites that while'prooied fore and aft.—Arkansas Gazette, | | A democracy can indicate what kind of govern- | ment it wants by popular vote, but no popular vote! By A. C. Gordon can determine what will happen when television comes or atomic energy is harnessed. Obviously we need engineers to design a four-day liner. The first step, then, is to create more bodies like the National | Advisory Board to tell us, not how democ y can be fitted to the machine,’but what researches the scien- tists are conducting, what new discov s and ma- |chines are in the offing, what social changes may be exp ed. We paid scarcely any attention to the two reports of the board. It is something, however, that it should have been appointed at all. For it is a sign that democracy is trying to discover how it should prepare itself for what Mr. Wells calls “the shape of thmgs to come. Whate' these things may be, freedom of thought and expression must remain n- Iviolate, If this is shackled, democracy and science must languish and die together. It is ominous for both that F ts and Communists should deny the vight of the scientist to formulate theories that may conflict with their social philosophies Like the rest of us, Mr. Sarnoff dislikes regimen- tation. Yet there is less personal liberty than there was in Washington's day; and there will be still less tomorrow when more complex inventions than dreamed of now will be introduced. The advance of technology is inevitably accompanied by regimen- tation in the sense of organization. Without it we |cannot have millions of cheap identical automobiles, identical electric lamps drawing their energy from one central station, identical tins and packages of |food in countless pantries, identical bathtubs from ! to th he are killed fighting? 1. How many states does it take block the ratification of an an amendment to the Constitution? 2. Who wrote “Paul Revere's Ride?” 3. How many bulls and horses annually in Spain, in bull- 4. What part e human body 5. Where are of the weight is the blood? the Cayman Is- lands? ANSWERS regardless 1. 12 states, of the population of these states. 2. Longfellow. 3. About 1500 bulls and 6,000 orses. 4. About one-thirteenth. 5. West Indies. of | British warships bombarded Zee-} brugge, submarine base, at the same time that the British aeroplane fleet staged an attack from the air. Four enemy 1 hine were destroyed, and five were put out of commi: ’ The War Department reported that two British airplanes were missing and that they were believed to have fallen during the engagement Work was to be started within the next few days on extension of the Mendenhall road from Mendenhall bridge to Auk Bay by ths crew of men working for J. C. Hayes, su- perintendent of roads for sec- tion. The new road will be about three miies in length and will ex- tend beyond the cannery at Auk Bay Mrs. E. H. Kaser, president of the Juneau Woman's Club, entertained at her home in honor of Mrs. Thom- wr as J. Donohoe of Valdez, president DAILY LESSONS IN ENCLISH By W. L. Gordow {coast to coast, identical motion pictures in a thou- 'sand theatres. This is no reason for weeping. The losses are offset by gains in swifter transport and jcommunication, better and cheaper clothes, more | plentiful food, more time for leisure. Professor |Dewey put it bravely when he said: | “1t seems incredible that men who have brought iLhe machine of applied physical discovery, invention jand use to such a pitch of perfection will abdicate in "the face of the infinitely greater human problem. of fulness; Words Often Misused: Do not say, Say, “Any of (or any one ) these three cakes is good.” Often Mispronounced: =sther. Pronounce es-ter; the he is silent, Often Misspelled: Careful, cargd one 1. Carefully; two 1's. Synonyms: Legend, myth, tradi- | tion, story. | We Don’t Care To Know { (Cincinnati Enquirer) ; A news service writer, recounting what prepara- | tions the United States is making against the pos- I«ibility of war, quotes an army tactician as explaining that the present trend in military preparation is toward swiftly mobile fighting forces, and away from |the type of warfare carried on in trenches between | massed forces during the World War. The explanation of the trend is rather novel. | The army spokesman said that “trench wars like the last one, with vast masses of men, mean that whoever wins, loses. Economically, there can be no winner.” i fel in of the Federated Women's Clubs of Alaska. | M. F. Gilkey, who for the past sev- eral months had been employed cacountant for the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company, had resigned and was to leave soon for Chichagof where he was to be chief account- as “Either of these three cakes ,are gng for the Chichagof company. J good.” T A R. ‘Barnaby was to succeed Mr. Gilkey at the A. J. Weather in Juneau recahed a high of 51 degrees and a low of 48 de- grees. | ——— i e i i | Word Study: | times and it is yours crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Felicity; state of being happy. were happiness, were happier than man; sensuality NOTIVE Second annual meetings of the stockholders and board of directors “Use a word three Let us it~ 1 beasts ut human Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada. (signed) CHARLES ... WHITNEY, —adv. Secretary. | licity is lodged in the soul, not the flesl Séneca. d Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire Office. | Fortunately, so far, the relative cost of war fought {in trenches and war fought at random—the goal of (swiftly mobile fighting forces—is more a matter of discussion than of actual comparison, the world not 'yet having had a taste of the latter in its modern version. Even so, it is highly doubtful if all the re- finement in mcdes of warfare can prevent the army’s tactician’s statement that “economically’ there can he no winn from applying to all war, not alone to | trench warfare. Nor does it seem by any means certain that war can be made a better proposition economically by get- | ting away from the idea of segregating the fighting in HOTEL JUNEAU | Formerly Hotel Zynda CLARENCE WISE | | Manager | PHONE 206 Juneau Radio Service For Your RADIO Troubles 122 Second St.—Next door to San Francisco bukery |the trenches. Frightful though the havoc was during /the World War, the worst of the destruction was con- fined to a relatively small area. Had the same war been fought in the modern manner, it requires little imagination to conceive the shambles that would have | |been made of Europe. Four years of destructive air |raids and thrusts by armored equipment undoubtedly | | would have made debris piles out of most of the capi- ! ' tals of Burope, and at its conclusion the conquered | | would have had little left with which to reimburse . Visit the | SITKA HOT SPRINGS Mineral Hot Baths Accommodations to suit every taste. Reservations Alaska Air ‘Transport. - SEE FEMMER FIRST {For all kinds of feed, alsu fertilizer. Phone 114. adv. 1 White Spot LIQUOR STORE PHONE 655 Prompt Delivery For very prompt LIQUOR DELIVERY their conquerors, much less than Germany and her lallies had at the close of the World War. | Militarists may object that it isn't the point, that rodern fighting equipment is designed to end wais | more quickly. On paper, it may figure out that way. On the basis of experience, it may prove the reverse, ! just as the World War lasted much longer than any- | \one expected. As to that, and the relative economy of modern warfare, no one knows for certain. Need- {less to say, it is to be hoped we don't have occasion 10 | know. | | A would-be dictator got badly licked at the polls in Belgium. In fact in that race he didn't even re- !motely resemble a Belgian hare.—Wichita (Kan.) | Eagle. are averse to joining European nations rarely | Blade. |E ! Another sign that conditions are easing up is !this national and international discussion of strip- Many nations are armed to the teeth and the trouble is they are not wisdom-teeth.—Carey Williams n Atlanta Georgian. What the Fascist forces arve doing to each other in Spain should create a demand for weskits bullet- The B. M. Ba Juneau, newspaper headlines, owlng to con- flagrations of strange origin and peculiar character. Mars in stauonary position is beld to encourage fires in both London and New York. For the young, ro- mance is indicated. Children born on this day prob- will be inclined to exquisite- in dress and luxury in sur- roundings. Subjects of this sign enjoy the artistic and beautiful things of life. James Donald Cameron, states- man, was born on this day 1833. Oth- ers who have celebrated it as a birthdate include Timothy Dwight, educator, 1752; Robert Owen, Eng- lish social reformer, 1771. 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