The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1937, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1937. [ of president of: the Standard Oil Company of New H A P P Y. Jersey until this dissolution went into effect. BIRTHDAY The end of the big trust was followed by consid- crable historical comment, in which its founder joined.| pp. pooie ertends congratul- PUBLIC NOTICE i e t——— ! IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR| THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, Daily Alaska Empire Editor and Manager f 20 Yea rs Ago | Horoscope ! Pay’n Takit ROBERT W. BENDER From The Empire SR G abiished evers evenmne except Sunday by the EMPIRE). “We were Simply trying to compass a situation,”|y; hes Lok ! “ Bl DIVISION NUMBER ONE, AT ey eviey v e B rueni v Ll e AT br M. By sehdr-gave hen LRI R e DO es R The stars incline KETCHIKAN. PHONES 92 or # Ehats S e . 4 Y | birthday anniversary, to the follow=| . but do not compel" IN THE MATTER OF THE REG Free Delivery by the company was first organized. “But no man, nofing: A & Eoioros 1n the Pot Difics 18 Junesu,as Sesond G [ st it B L e e idard O DA ¢ MAY 24, 1917 \ ULAR JUNE, 1937 TERM OF THE{ Fresh Meats, Groceries, matter bt MAY 24 The Merchants’ Protective Asso- DISTRICT COURT FOR THE Liquors, Wines and Beer SUBSCRIPTION RATES. jer in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. the following rates in advance, $6.00; Delicered in f they will promptly notify e or irregularity in the delivery News Office, 602; Business Office, 374 MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. exclusively entitled to the use for patches credited to it or not other- and also the local news published Telephone: " ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER NY OTHER PUBLICATION pany. Any such charge is false. We treated the | smallest and weakest of our competitors with just |as much consideration as the biggest and ablest. “Our organization was formed upon the principles of cooperation, conservation and service.” In his “Random Reminiscences” Mr. said: “The conditions were so chaotic (at the start of the company) that most of the refiners were very desirous of getting out of the business. We invariably offered those who wanted to sell the option of taking cash or stock in our company. “We very much preferred to have them take the ;:tm‘k because a dollar in those days looked as large |as a cartwheel; but as a matter of business policy we { found it desirable to offer them the option. In most cases they were precipitate in their choice of cash. They knew what a dollar would buy, but they were very skeptical in regard to the probability of resur- Rockefeller Annabelle Edwards Mrs. 8. Guyot Mrs. Wallis S. George John D. Emmons Emma Ness Charles Sabin Pete Kirkebo [ S S —— T ) DAILY LESSONS 1 IN- ENGLISH . * By-W. L. Gordon * Words Often Misused: Do not say, “I have seen the picture last week,” Say, “I saw the picture last week Often Mispronounced: Asinin ciation had endorsed the proposal for the city to acquire the front portion of the property occupied by Shattuck’s Dock, for the accommo- dation of the fisheries business at Juneau. Because i a shortage of orders ‘for lumber, the James sawmill was to suspend operations indefinitely. Jocal batters, pitchers and sprin- ers ' had been practicing every eve- fning after 6 o'clock working up/ {baseball pep ard team work for| ‘the excursion to Whitehorse. | g e 2 The most representative gather- ing of property holders and business men to have been seen in Douglas i TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1937 Except in the morning hours ad- verse planetary aspects rule today, according to astrology. It is the early worker who wins success un- der this planetary government. Industry is under a rule of the stars which indicates a tremendous demand for trained hands and alert minds. Labor will profit in com- ing months. While employes are to benefit, employers will not be so fortunate as those whom they direct. Amer- ican corporations are to meet many tests before the year ends, the'the seal of the above entitled court seers prophesy. ‘Women should keep in the back- ground in public affairs at this time, for they will find their gest TERRITORY OF ALASKA, DIVIS- | ION NUMBER ONE, AT JUN’EAU.’ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Court dated April 27, 1937, a Regu- lar June, 1937 Term of the United States District Court for the Terri- tory of Alaska, Divisioh Number ' One, will be held in the courtroom of the United States Courthouse at Juneau, Alaska, beginning at the hour of 2 o'clock P. M, on Monday, June 7, 1937. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused £ | [ i l Shattuck Bidg. A We Sell for LESS Because We Sell for CASH That pursuant to an Order of the! Lead‘]‘ DQpL Store George Brothers 1 g s oy g £ e acm | SIGRID’'S DEAUTY SALON “YOUR APPEARANCE IS OUR'RESPONSIBILITY" to be affixed at Ketchikan on this the 27th day of April, 1937. ROBERT E. COUGHLIN, Clerk, U. S. District Cou . Compounaed h iv o Pronounce as-i-nin, a as in at, first (for some time had been held at|compensations within the limits of|Publication dates. May 3, 10, 17, 24, ]_““ngt l}}e olfl bus.l’ness and giving any permanent I as in it, second i as in nine, ac- the Labor Union Hall for the pur-|domestic interests. 1637, bies T E\aluc a T, S i 2 z 1cent first syllable. * Ipose of discussing and considering| Prosperity is to assure much gay-| ____ AENE Ay, by your | Aguin, Shen. the Mauck-reking ' @REich 4es Sk Often Misspelled: Parerithesis a proposition for securing cheaper ety through the summer months ATTENTION MASONS dactor. | height, Mr. Rockefeller said: H . 5 (singlar). Parentheses (plural): electric light service. when resorts of every state will| There will be a stated communi- I | ~ “sometimes things are said about us that are| gsynonyms: Coax (verb), cajolé, | |profit and there will be extraor-|cation of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147,|: J D Co. - | {cruel, and they hurt. But I never despair. I believe lentice, persuade; wheedle. | The Alaska Juneau mill was es- dinary volume of travel. ‘ |F. &-AM., Monday evening. of '« uneau vrug Lo. i ‘ | in man and the brotherhood of man and am confident| Word Study: “Use a word three timated to be crushing approxi- Again astrologers foretell un-|7:30. By order of the W.M. - G 2 T S YR B & usual weather and extreme heat ini many parts of the country. Highladv, winds and severe electrical storms also are prophesied. Commencements at the universi-| ties this year are to be memorable for the number of brilliant grad- uates who are to make names for, themselves in the next decade. ¢ Remarkable developments in the mately 2,000 tons of ore per day., The first two units of the mill had been placed ready for operation, and were working intermittently, with the balance to be cut in as fast as material was supplied. times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by master- ing one word each day. Today's word: Pervade; to pass or spread J. W. LEIVERS, Secretary. + 1ocailon notices tor sale at The Empire Office Bert Berthol You are invited to present this oupon at the hox office of the Capitol Theatre and receive tickets for your- self and a friend or relative to see ‘everything will come out for the good of all in the end. I have decided to say nothing, hoping that after my !dsath the truth wiil gradually come to the surface and | that posterity will do strict justice.” 53 g John D. ‘Rockefeller, who typified ‘“the richest After he had retired from active business Mr. :::::gi]hlzheuz?e?: ‘:: pf:\‘:g;“yn: man in the world” for the greater part of a century Rcckerel.ll‘l‘ }apphed hm\sel_l to }hg task of giving ESIWME being.”"—Lowell. is dead at the advanced age.of 97. While not actually Zealously as he had applied himself, to the. task .of n abIn o \des Rockefeller in getting. The spirit in which he worked is expressed in| o & SBOFIclEe: manin the watltl, Wes IGRR SoTxaie e the charter of the Rockefeller Foundation—*To pro- § the more active days controlled such vast wealth that yote the welfare of mankind in all parts of thel LOOK and LEARN he popularly was referred to as the world's wealthiest world.” | By A. C. Gordon and every school boy’s idea of having lots of money Above all, he sought, as he often said, pons G ame ». the problem of giving money away without making was to be as rich as Rockefeiler, thus the name Rocke- Y ; i 4 Paupers of those who receive it.” 1. When and why was the Holy He gathered about him a body of experienced ad-1N“2m‘vvs;‘me‘::‘:“m!‘;]‘;di:[')\t et s0 during the years visers and established a group of benevolent cor-i ik 5 pou ti s o g ‘ous figure in civil life in the South Starting as a bookkeeper in a commission NOUSE 1,rations, chief among which are the Rockefeller g JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER The captain of the British freight- er which had arrived at an Ameri- can port from Naples had stated that German submarines were VeIY yealms of the arts are prognosti- active in the Mediterranean, b“l‘cated for the summer. Television, that the combined flotillas of the the radio and other modern won- French, Italian and British destroy-‘ders will become even more amazing ers were capturing a good many ev-'than they have been. ery week. | Persons whose birthdate it is LA bave the augury of a year of good Five enemy airplans nad raided fortune, although there may be ? |during the Civil War? 2stern counties near London and changes and upheavals i S S 7 3 cke: ' TOSH e a business i | ges and upheavals in business 2 Oleveigng, ax. Bockeielie e S92 Foundation, the General Education Board, the Rocke-| 3 what is the Camorra? |dropped many bombs, then making affairs. s s bi y | ing i ' genius and made his really b_ls money in oil, founding gener nstitute for Medical Research and the Laura| 4. How many watts of electrical |their escape. One person was re-| Children born on this day prob- the now famous Standard Oil Company. Spelman Rockefeller Memorial. (energv constitute one horsepower? ported to have been killed. ably will be exceedingly intelligent “to solve| | o = feller became symbolic of money, and has remaine From the beginning the oil industry was highly “I worked myself almost to a nervous breakdown, ' speculative. Thousands of men with all sorts of gyoning my way without sufficient guide or chart! business experience and many more with no real .0 the ever-widening field of philanthropic en- training dashed into the field to get rich quick. It geayor” said Mr. Rockefeller in explaining his meth- was a good deal the same as it was many years later o4 It was forced upon me to organize and plan in Oklahoma, Texas and southern California. When nis gepartment upon as distinct lines of progress as a new well was brought in with a big flow, scores of 4+ other business affairs. men drove other wells with frantic haste near by. “I have always indulged the hope that I should Often the petroleum had to be stored in Pools, on pe ghle to help establish efficiency in giving, so that the ground. The oil market alternated violently be- weajtn may be of greater use to the present and future tween feast and famine s new gushers came in or generations. If the people can be educated to help old wells ran dry and prices varied accordingly. These {phemselves, we strike at the roots of many of the evils sudden fluctuations in the late '60’s wrecked many of the world.” refiners. Always he felt his way, slowly and with extreme But John D. Rockefeller and his associates, though qution. young men, were experienced veterans in business, “One of the most important of the elements which trained for years in ways of economy and exact ac- o4 to make up civilization is the progress of morality counting. They seemed to manage better than any ,nq religion,” Mr, Rockefeller declared. | of tiielr competitors, When they formed the Standard He proved hi§ Belief in this by giving many mil- Oil Company of Ohio they had the largest refining jjons to various religious institutions in this country, business in Cleveland. mainly of the Baptist faith. Often he declared that Nevertheless, they told their meighbors that, un- pjs association with the church was the most import- less some sort of organization could be formed for ant act of his life. mutual protection they could see that they, as well And he had a simple philosophy. It found ex- as the others, would be wiped out, one by one, as the pression in few formal speeches, but he expounded it market fluctuated. Accordingly Mr. Rockefeller first oometimes in informal talks to young men: asked the largest firm among his competitors if it “Do all the good you can, Be earnest. would care to join forces with the Standard Oil Com- ,¢r044 to work. pany. The offer was accepted at once. Other neigh- “There is no feeling in the world, I think, to be bors then came in until at the end of two years all compared with self-reliance. Do not sacrifice that to of the petroleum refiners of Cleveland were memoers anything else, of the Standard Oil Company. ‘ “Do not grow old before your time. Maintain an Cleveland became one of the chief oil refining jnterest in life and in all living things. centers of the country, taking the place previously “Live within your means. ‘One of the swiftest to- occupied by Pittsburgh. Soon the principal refiners boggans I know of is for a young man just starting in of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia sought to join the jire 1o go into debt. Standard Oil organization. They were welcomed into “The true economy of life, I have found, is to dis- the alliance of interests, as were many other con- gover the man who can do a particular thing — and cerns in New York, New Jersey, New England and then jeave him to do it unhampered. the oil regions of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. “Sons of wealthy parents have not a ghost of a For several years the stocks of these several com- chance compared with boys who come from the coun- panies were held in a private trust, but in 1882 the {ry with the determination to do something in this Standard Oil Trust was formed to hold them all. The (.4~ total dividends paid by the Standard Oil combination, from its formation in 1882 tc its dissolution in 1911, Favorablé report of:the- House committee on the were estimated at §751,000,000. small boat harbor here lends hope that the project Mr. Rockefeller's colossal wealth and power made may be undertaken this year. him one of the greatest economic factors of his time. With him began the real development of big busi'- The proposal to establish parking lots around ness and the era of the so-called “swollen fortunes,” town to relieve the streets of congested traffic is which gave rise to much public agitation and New particularly apropos at this time of the year. political doctrines. PRI GO S, His fame passed through various social phases. With an air base at the North Pole, it won't be His money was sought and accepted to found institu- Jong before somebody will be after the hot-dog con- tions for the study and suppression of disease and t0 cession up there. spread education and religion. His gifts were criti- cized by some who called him a “public menace.” One gift he made was attacked by critics who called it “tainted money,” charging that his business system destroyed cpen competition. But, after an investiga- tion, the gift was accepted. No man or corporation has ever been more bitter- ly assailed than John D. Rockefeller and the Standard | Do not be Fascism in This Country (New York Times) Mr. Borah took -occasion recently to warn the| | Senate that an “insidious, subtle effort” is being made | to preach the gospel of fascism in the United States. | He did not identify the groups which he believes are | Oil Company. Rivals from the earlie‘sv, days accused “:]orrl;iix:,gd tfi:vozzdv:’:_izuesn:;g:‘?;:;zn?:;:::c:gn:re:! them both of “crushing out” competition, of getting. array themselves in black hoods or silver shirts or rich and rebates of freight.charges from the railroad |other similar regalia; for all these groups are patently companies, of bribing men to 'spy on competing companies. Popular writers of the “muck-raking” period re- iterated the charges in magazines and books. For many years it was the unbroken policy of Mr. Rocke- feller and his associates to *“say nothing and saw wood,” though they met all attacks before courts, legislatures and commissions and won most of the issues. The most spectacular of these cases came in 1907 when Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, then of the federal district court in Chicago, forced Mr. Rockefeller to appear as a witness, then fined the Standard Oil Com- pany of Indiana $20.000 on each of 1462 counts, eharging acceptance of rebates on a shipment of oil. The total penalty of $29,240,000 was never paid, as the supreme court reversed the case. Those were the days of “trust busting,” and the Standard Oil suffered the fate of several other com- binations when, in 1911, the supreme court, acting under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, ordered it dis- solved. But the various constituent concerns into which it was split prospered even more than when under the one direct control. Although Mr. Rockefeller had retired from active, daily business 15 years earlier, he retained the title on the wane. More likely Mr. Borah is thinking of the well-mannered apologists for faseism in its Euro- (pean manifestations: the returned travelers who cele- brate its various accomplishments; {democrats. who ridicule the sometimes cumbersome and slow-moving processes of self-government; the business men who may be tempted, during periods of widespread industrial controvery, to yearn for the strong hand of the dictator. Doubtless there are such business men. But it is difficult to believe that their number can be large, when they have before them ample. evidence of how little actual control of their own business they would enjoy, and how small a portion of the profits would come their way, under the aegis of a really first-rate dictatorship. This is not to say that those who prefer the ways of democraey can afford to be complacent. The obli- gation rests on them to explain at every opportunity the reasons for their preference. Mr. Borah gave his own reason in his speech when he condemned dictator- ship from either “right” or “left” Of fascism and communism he said: “Both are enemies ‘of every vital liberty and every ight and privilege of the average man or woman. Both reduce the average citizen to a state of political and economic selfdom. Both succeed in breeding and the disillisioned | 5. Where is Chilkoot Pass? ANSWERS 1. In the year 1274, to promote reverence for the name of Jesus, and to suppress immorality, pro- fanity, and blasphemy. 2. Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. 3. An Italian secret society. 4. Approximately 746. 5. in Alaska. e e il MODERN ETIQUETTE By Roberta, Lee. Q When a woman is entertain ing her card club, is it proper to % costly prizes, if one can afford it and give very handsome and wishes to do so? A. No. It is very mcanslderalerf for the obvious reason., 7T that other members of the club may | not be able to afford such extra-, to do so, vagance. Q is not necessary. Q. invitation”? A. No. Say, “I am happy to ac- cept your invitation.” —————————— Empire classifieds pay. PSS When in Need of DIESEL OIL—UTAH COAL GENERAL HAULING STORAGE and CRATING CALL US JUNEAU TRANSFER Phone 48——Night Phone 4703 Records Radio Tubes | (Next Gastineau Hotel) | Mrs. Pigg Phone 65 J o —3 = | i. | | In the Rocky Mountains, alsa Should a man remove his glove to shake hands with a woman? A, Yes, if her hand is gloveless. If the woman is wearing gloves, it Is it proper to say or write, “I shall be happy to accept your' The Italian offensive had entered the second stage of its drive with new and important gains between Gorizia and the sea, the first day af the new drive netting 3,000 pris- oners and seven important posi- tions. Temperature had ranged from 38 to 50 degrees, with clear conditions prevailing. s — The projected International Pa- and independent. sign may be doubly gifted, for they are influences by Gemini. Ralph Waldo Emerson, American author and philosopher was born on this day 1803. Others who have celebrated it as a birthday include Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English writer, 1803; William Hen- ry Channing, clergyman and writ- er, 1810. Subjects of this (Copyright, 1937) SR Alfalfa, ‘introduced ntc Califor- cific Highway, when completed, will nia during the gold rush, now pays extend from Alaska to Argentina, a distance of 12,000 miles. , farmers of the annually. state $30,000,000 300 Reams . 300 Baths from $2.50 Sfwcial Weely Kates ALASKANS LIKE THE | THE BEST TAP BEER IN TOWN! THE MINERS' Recreation Parlors BILL DOUGLAS | - —u o ~TheB. M. behrends Juneau, ;Ahskn COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS Resources Over Two and One-Half Million Dollars fostering discontent in all the different nations in the world.” ‘With that statement most Americans will agree. | 3" md Dress BIG VAN'S 228 Front S COAL For Every Purse and Every Purpose PACIFIC COAST COAL CO. ‘ PHONE 412 “Tomorrow'’s Styles Today” ' ) 1 t ) ! P CARDINAL CABS 25¢ Within City Limits “Old Hutch” As x pai¢-ap supscriber of Tha Daily Alaska Empire Good only for current offering. 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