The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1938, Page 4

‘to his frankness with the Washington correspondents. . met them on terms of friendly equality b Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, J Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as S i i d. Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by earrier in Juneau and Dousl! By mall, postage paid One vear, one month for $1.23 per month., at the foll six mon! in_advance, $12 in advance, §125. s will con: P ity in the de- . 602; Business Office, 374 JCIATED PRI clusively entitled to the use for dispatches credited to it or not paper “and also the local news reublica otherwise credit published herein. " ALASKA CIRCULATION GUAR! THAN THAT OF ANY OTH: this EED TO BE LARGER R PUBLICATION. CARY T. GRAYSON Another war time figure is taken from the moving scene in the death of Cary T. Grayson. who rose to public attention as the personal physician and confi- dant of the late President Woodrow Wilson. While Grayson was decorated with the Navy Cross of the United States, Order of Leopold of Belgium and Legion of Honor of France it was not for naval or military strategy that Admiral Grayson was best known. Rather, it was for the place of confidence that he held in the White House as physician to the Woerld War President Others broke with Wilson toward the close of his administration but Grayson remained ever the man whose counsel the late Presi- dent sought and heeded. Grayson figured :n two big controversies that caused wide comment. The first arose late in August, 1916, and continued over into 1917. It was caused by his sudden promotion from the rank of lieutenant commander to that of rear admiral and naval medical director. The story goes that the first Mrs. Wilson, during her last illness, asked Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy. to give Grayson a rank commensurate with “his responsibilities as personal physician to the Presi- dent. Daniels, after getting advice from the judge advocate general of the navy affirming the legality of such a move, recommended that Grayson be made rear admiral and medical director and Wilson sent the nomination to the Senate. There Senators Lodge and Weeks of Massachusetts led a fight against confirmation. The New Englanders objected to jumping Grayson over the heads of a long list of senior medical officers. They pointed out that he had been in the service only four years when at- tached to the presidential staff and that the succeed- irg nine had been spent in the White House, out ¢’ ‘ouch with the navy. Eventuaily the contro- versy eot to the point where it blocked a long list of presidential nominations and it was pressed to a vote, the promotion being granted by a strictly partisan division. The second controversy in which Grayson figured had to do with the severe illness which prostrated President Wilson in 1919-20. There were complaints in and out of Congress that Grayson was concealing the true condition of the nation’s chief executive. Some of the physicians in the national legislature being especially vocal on this point. But .Grayson had promised Wilson not to let the country know that the President was paralyzed in in danger of death and he stuck to his word. NEVER l() '1‘ T HL (()\l‘\l()\ TOUCH HE } Proba the most ly widely in America has written his last column with the death read newspaper writer of 0. O. McIntyre suddenly in New York. Few modern writers got closer to the hearts of the American people than did McIntyre. While he wrote mostly of the big city and its people and ways, the small town touch that he gave it appealed to readers in every cross roads in the country. A Gallipolis, Ohio, boy, who made good in the city, Odd McIntyre never lost the common bond of the small town. He capitalized on it, to be sure, but millions of people who never saw New York read his columns with the attitude that here was one of their own small town lads reporting the doings in the metropolis. McIntyre was a newspaperman’s columnist. He had risen from the ranks as a cub on a little weekly to the top of his profession. He didn’t become a columnist, like so many, because his name became known for some other achievement. He was a news- paper writer by choice and training, and a cracker- Jack job he made of it. His death at 54 is untimely, but he had reached the pinnacle and given enjoyment to millions. In newspaperdom his name long will live. A Republican speaker says it doesn’t make so much difference how many votes his party gets this year but it's the platform that counts. Democrats, we as sume, will be glad to let the G.O.P. have the platiorm and they’ll take the votes. One more report like Ir\mg Reed brings sbout the fish in Wild Lake up in the Koyukuk country and we just won't be able to stand this fishing suspense until spring. Having seen the moon on Mt. Jumbo, we conclude that not even the Los Angeles chamber of commerce has very much to boast about in compariscn Franknes: (Cleveland Plain Dealer) The President would be ill-advised to termmnate the present type of twice-weekly press conference in favor of the written-query conference held by several of his recent predecessors, No President in recent history had during his first months in the White House a friendlier press than Mr. Roosevelt hadl. This was due, in no smail measure, He appeared to hold nothing back from them. He They wrote of him as one who was willing 10 let them see the inside workings of government. Their generally cordial interpretations of the marn and his 4 i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 15 pclicies went a long way toward building up country- wide confidence in the new administration. In the intervening four years the question has often been asked whether the President would continue these press conferences on the terms of their earlier days. So far he has continued them. If the President has some of his prestige—a point much in dispute —it cannot be claimed that the loss is due to the frankness he has continued to show toward the corres- pondents. It is due to other causes. The loss, if any, might well have been more marked had the confer- ences been terminated Now, it appears, some critics of the administration are suggesting that these Tuesday and Friday con- ferences be altered and their free interchange of ccmment between President and listeners stopped. They would substitute the older form where no ques- tions can be considered unless they are written out and submitted in advance. These critics blame the president for being too “talkative,” for uttering too many curb-stone opinions on serious subjects; whereat business is given the jitters over what Mr. Roosevelt told the correspon- dents the day before. It is probably true that occa- sicnally the president says more than he should. There have been recent examples where he seemed to be thinking aloud rather than stating mature conclusions. While this may be the fact, the alternative would almost certainly be worse, When questions must be written out and submitted to the White House secre- tariat in advance, the President may obviously answer what he chooses and ignore the rest. Such a con- ference easily degenerates into a session marked chief- ly by the circulation of hand-outs. It came near being exactly this during the latter days of Hoove: Correspondents properly such a conference. Only the tend. Readers back home are denied the privilege of an interpretation which, being renewed twice a week, should give them a fair picture of how the government the Coolidge regime and in have little interest in econd-string men at- is operating, so far as the executive branch is con- cerned Mr. Roosevelt needed, and certainly welcomed, the friendly press which his ¥, resourcefulness and frankness won him at the beginning of the first administration. He needs a friendly press now, for his second administration, no less. The best assurance he can have that this friendliness will remain is by his continuance of the present kind of press con- ference. We commend the stand taken by Stephen Early, White House press relations secretary, in favor of continuing the conferences as they are. Some of the advocates of a change, at least, are not guided in their >pinion by any wish to promote the welfare or popu- larity of the Administration. The Little Men (New York Worla-Telegramr y of them want the government to let them alone. Many others want the government to lend them a loan. And the little business men who met at Washington started off in a confusion of tongues that must have been But we don't feel much like laughing. A, conference arranged as this one was, with many of its participants selected at random from among people who had written letters to the Presi- dent, was bound to include a good many panacea peddlers. And so quite a few little men showed up with | long speeches in their pockets and a firm determina- tion to be heard rather than to listen. The confer- | ence was told that the country’s problems could be | solved by driving Satan out; or by getting President Roosevelt to promise that he won't seek a third term; or by establishing a government scheol for inventors; or by repealing a million laws and passing no new ones; or by printing money to lend. But for every little man who is sure that he has the solution for everything there are dozens and scores who have gone to Washington, paying their own way, because they are puzzled' and worried and afraid, and because they earnestly want to help each other and the country find a way out. They are hardware merchants, and lumber dealers, and garment makers, and druggists, and insurance men, and restaurant owners, and machinery manu- facturers, and filling station operators, and dry cleaners and printers. They are the people who own the small stores and factories and mills of America; who struggle to meet pay rolls and pay taxes and, with luck, make a little profit. They have found themselves and their businesses affected more and more by what government does. They have had to contend with higher taxes and new taxes and a muitiplicity of records to keep and forms to fill out. They have seen big business growing bigger, and labor demanding higher wages and shorter hours. And now, after it seemed that bette were here at last, they have watched a recession wipe out most of their gains and threaten them with dis- astrous losses They aren’t in ful] agreement as to what is the matter. But what |,ruup is in full agreement? They can’t get together unanimously on a plan. Well, where is unanimity on any plan? Most of them, we fear, returned from Washington disappointed. Some of them say the conference was a failure—that they might better have stayed at home | and saved their money. But they'll go home deter- mined to pitch in and keep things running as best they can, no matter what the President and the gov- ernment do. No, we can't see much to laugh at'in the confer- ence of little business men. But we can see a great deal to admire, What This Country Needs— (Philadelphia Record) This week's panacea prize goes to the unnamed member of a New York organization of small business men who rose, during a discussion of how to cure the economic ills of the nation, and suggested changing the pictures on $1 bills and $5 bills. He was not allowed to finish his speech, so thc‘) details of this scheme will be lost to posterity. But | we suspect he wanted to put a picture of Herbert Hoover on the notes—so people would sbend them quickly, to get rid of them. Viadivostok is on a war basis, with 1000 sub- marines on hand. Forts are going up along the Sea of Japan. The Russian Bear seems to have finished hibernating.—Boston Globe. Senator Charles L. McNary, a gossip note reveals, makes the study o” nuts his favored avocation. Wash- ington would seem to be an ideal spot for pursuing this hobby.—Boston Herald. Sir Archibald Kerr has been named Britain's Am- bassador to troubled China. A question arises if a bullet-proof vest with the morning coat is de rigeur. —San Francisco Chronicle, A Washington health expert seems inadvertently to have hit upon a solution of some of the ills that beset us. He ad members of Congress to *keep their mouths shut, while they breathe, — Beston ' Herald The filibuster southern senators are condus ting against the anti-lynching bill is costing the taxpayers $9,000 a day, proving that talk is not always cheap,— Cleveland Plain Dealer, from all accounts, very funny indeed. times | HAPPY BIRTHDAY 20 Years A2o The Empire extends congratula- From The Emplm tions and best wishes today, their | birthday anniversary, to the follow- :: &} ing: FEBRUARY 15, 1018 <Ak Mrs. Sam Guyot had been elect- FEBRUARY 15, ed Treasurer of the Altar Society. Charles E. Naghel ; sl B. B, S Miss Mamie Feusi gave a Valen- Joseph S[erh}ng tine Day party the previcus even- Mike Chinovich ing at her home in Douglas. Glen Kirkbam R Mrs. Glen Kirkham Fire Chief Jack Langseth, of Bmil e —-—" Douglas, had appointed Axel Kron- Mary Jukich quist, assistant chief as successor to Mrs. Henry Schlegel Oscar Fritzberg, resigned. g and wife left * Frank A. Metcalf | the south on the Princess So- MODERN for phia on a short pleasure and busi- ETIQUETTE ke el | i St. Ann's Parochial school at e———-3 Douglas was preparing a public pro- Q If a single woman, living in £ram to be given on Washington's a hotel, has been entertained by Birthday how can she re- Horosco pe \ “The stars incline but do not compel” - | | | DRS.KASER & FREEBURGER | o DENTISTS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 1938 Blomgren Building | Adverse planets rule today ac- PHONE 56 i cording to @strology. Under this | Hours 3 am. to 9 pm. ‘ planetary government there may be much deceit and misrepresentation. g * 1l omens will continue to affect workers in all parts of the world and today may be unfortunate for conferences or negotiations between . Dr. Crarles P. Jenne DENTIST Directory PROFESSIONAL | FRATERNAL SOCIETIES GASTINEAU CHANNEL — B. P. 0. ELKS mest every Wednesday at 8 _pam. Visiting brother: welcome. N. C. BAN- FIELD, lted r M. H. SIDES, tary. EAU LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Mocenday of each month in Scottish Rite } beginning at 7:30 p.n employers and employees. i Neptune f5 1n o position presag.| | Rooms 8 and 9, Valentine Bldg DANIEL ROSS, Wor- | ing secret and subversive activities | TELEPHONE 176 iptu :\hjwrf J:\:\ms W. LE" . affecting nations as well as individ- VERS, Secretary. Under th sway greed and REBEKAHS e L ATy Dy Perseverance Lodge mo. o A meets § er i orte i nd fourth Wednes Strikes will continue to threaten | Dr. Richard Williams | cvery second and fourth Wedne i industry and the spring may be a | DENTlST M‘(“mm Ne h;‘ G time of severe test to umion lead- | 1 P : " AD A SNCE » E ers. Washington will discover wide- | OFFICE AND RESIDENCE | BLAKE, S spread antagonism to certain labor GOLDSTEIN BUILDING | — 3 % e P o e = i - | & cnitied, opupie. At Revelstoke, B. C., Nelson Nel- policies and labor leader: i iy 7 ! I ‘she. .COUFUESY ke the O record for There is evidence of discontent —— ! “ mlt | A. By taking this couple to din- on broke the Canadian record ) ‘ e 3 e l ) Sl ¥ :l g ski jump by 8 inches. His jump and unrest among all classes. e D J d Wh ! 3 XPE 8y the hdtel, n SSaEiENIT 157 feet and 6 inches tendency to criticise business and r. Judson Whittier ! ! @ When both PSHES L the ey government affairs will be general CHIROPRACTOR BE { DL Ca are Mot D ‘:h"s,(' nAme ) nche Sweet in “The Evil By Despite peace movements and Drugless Physician I ¢ should the wedding' invltelions be =, o oimes {n. the serial, diplomatio " representations’ ¢ on= Office hours: 10-12, 1-5, 79 | | i issued? T'he Railroad Raiders,” was the bill demning war there will be continued Rooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. | : ! ,fm. n:,,.:‘;“.v, '.‘;;\'.m‘mfl;,.,.‘,'n(}"'0“""' AR Dream Theatre, Juneau, bloodshed in many parts of the PHONE 667 io | ! Q What is the hour usually spec :‘:J'li' Rigtpore, WL SR Eretres s FULLY COMPOUNDE ! ified I"“ “1" IviCROR DL Thati- A I o '",'l“, e :“1.'3:: ‘,:;.:Ah Aged persons should take special | [, | Front Street Next Ca { ionable ball? man into the bore of R dir healthe. ShasFthis [ { AI I’A‘oxilo'('lurk Railrond at Mile 20. The bear ¢ Of their health under, this ! Dr. A. W. Stewart | | PHONE 97—Free Delivery ¢ e became wedged and could not move Configuration, which forecasts many DENTIST &8 ] i either forward or backward. A light deaths due to pneumonia and heart Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. | 1 bear i » enq Afflictions JILDING | : engine butted the bear in the end * ; ; SEWARD BUT | : DAILY LESSONS | surthest from his growl, but could Persens whose birthdate it is Office Phnm} 469 & R 11 St | IN ENGLISH | not move the bruin. Dynamite the au of a, year of ew pss E ‘ Ihe exa. ore” | LN\ I'l e tr brought into action the Clations and changed interests. Un- = | your { fies e T ettled conditions may lead to pros- Relix [ . s remov pieces and B T 1 eliable | By W. L. Gordon | “'l‘r\](-l(: nl\::\‘(:'(]l]lllllm pieces and el i DR H. VANCE e d® o “ R ¢ il Children born on this day prob- | OSTEOPATH i ariaana g . er , HRN ¥ oh 95 w 17 ably will be of kindly mature, but Consultation and examination | prescrip- | Rt e g ot ther Report—High 23 10W. 1T otermined will. Subfects of this | free, Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5 e | S it R R e ST sign usually have moral and phys- 7 to 9:30 by appointment. | | you say? n ical courage Gastineau Hotel Annex | | B\.{ler-Mauro Drug Co. Often Mispronounced. Compl. FORS S L » il T o § ot RGN S EYoncih e M . o ® Henry Watterson, noted journal- | South Franklin St. Phone 177 kil el S A i AR & STO(‘K QUOTATION" ist, born on this day 1840 — e 8 B AP YT, A as in on, first a as in play, second % ik sk 4 | Crbiore Wihia' bave celebratad it bs bl . feeee— a as in an unstressed, accent sec- EET bl s o R SEIEHIRIOGNTLE B gy s #3 &9 ’ sipylt il o 4 birthday include Colonel George [ 1 “Tomorrow’s Styles 1 Often Misspelled: Gangrene: not NEW YORK, Feb. 15 Closing Hvur\l.'_\ @x (}J]' nm Von ‘/yck Rober_t Slmpson, Opl.D- { : TOdCIY" { ¥ v quotation of Aaska Juneau mine Brooks, writer, 1886 GBS ThS Argtics Dtex® b} i 4 Synonyms: Extraordinary, re. S1°ck today is 12%, American Can (Copyright, 1938) o Dot a i 2 markable, not ble, unusual, rare, °*" American Light -and Power SRR Opthalmology g { P sl e PR TS 41, Anaconda 30%. Bethlehem Steel Glaksed Bittan Lanses con | { singula, wncommon 44 Auaemde S0%, Rethishan Stes! cONS OF LEGION TO < 7 B o . Word Stuay: “Use a word three 15, Curtiss Wright 4%, General X e =i (flv Ao { L times and it is yours” Let us in- Motors 34, International Harvester ‘GIVE “CHOP SUEY “ WHEN IN A HURRY | 3 { G : A crease our vocabulary by mastering g3 Kennecott 35% Ser CALL COLE FOR OIL H ! 5 one word each day. Toda, tral 17%. Southern 184 DINNER OM TUESDAY | 34 jius or 27 gravity, in avy | | H ? Ornate; embellished elaborately. “A United States Steel 52 r amonnt., T, QUIOK! ! ‘Iunecxu's Own Stofet very ornate and expensive collar vice 1%, Pound TRANSFER ! ! 1 sometimes adorns a worthless dog.” bid 2's asked 4'i. ku Squadron, Sons of the Amer- COLE b 5D N0 NI o U SN STNG % SRR e an Legion, will sponsor a “chop Phone 3441 or Night 554 ® = — = 5 « & — =R DOW, JO! uey” feed for members of ;\H(n(l e £ The following Dow, John Bradiord Post and o s S 3 | LOOK and LEARN | sones averages: industrials 12493, Auxiliary next Tuesday night, Feb- Have Your Eyes Examined by l:h SL..| EE?YE"S ‘, 1 down 104; rails 2004, down .12; ruary 22, it was revealed at the reg- “The Clo i By A. C. Gordon utilities 18.90, down .10. ular meeting of the Post last night Dr. Rae L. Carlson S gt G ‘ B - - - in the Dugout. Captain LeRoy Ves- OPTOMETRIST q s Ainine i § | tal of the Squadron met with the bl 1. From what is 1 The chief centers of rum manu- o * :“‘mmd'"pmh o the Office Ludwig Nelson's Jewelry 2. What U. S. island is, for its facture are Cuba, Jamaica, Mer- event. the' Hirst of fts King ‘pub! on | SHop Phone Green 331 § size, the most valuable island in tinique and British Guiana by the new Squadron : = i the world? UG A L) i — e ; 3 er alte; Baco WAaS *'3. How many deer are there in ! SRS R e FINE { | Hollmann’s Pharmacy the United States? " COME IN and SEE the NEW = named to represent the Post at the ‘ | 201 Seward St. Phone 45 4. What are the trade winds? | STROMBERG.CARLSON peace progam to be given by the | ya(ch and Jewelry Repairing | | \ppSCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY 5. In which South American ' RADIOS i TROman S Oluy abd she Busitssiand | | “a¢ very akSouabie) xates’ ) COMPOUNDED FROM | country s French the offical lan- | § B Burford & Co. | o gnans O | PAUL BLOEDHORN | FRESH DRUG! 4 e v ke | “Our door step is worn by | Ninety-five per cent of the people S. FRANKLIN STREET Satisfied Customers” of Massachusetts live in cities. ANSWERS e SRR AR — 4 1. Cellulose. s T B The Japanese era dates from 660 ON THE MEZZANINE ; J B. WARRACK | 2. Manhattan Island. BODDING TRANSFER B. C, when the Japanese empire HOTEL JUNEAU Engmeer&_conh‘actors; 3. Approximately 2,000,000, I was founded. ; I P 8| | forat 4 Ocean winds, in omnear the! | pyiiny | e BEAUTY SHOP | soNEAU Torrid Zone, that blow from the Ak—"('»al Bt | Serfdom has entirely disappeared | LYLAH WILSON bii same quarter periodically ! sm'“w_‘l_,ucl o m"vir | from Great Britain by the end of | oneoure Felephone | Sl 5. French Guiana. i —— the 15th centu | X-Er-Vac 538 : N s i L S Do 2 Gl e I Audit—Tax and System Service | NOTICE TO CAR OWNERS | PERCY S CAFE JAMES C. COOPER, All owners of automobiles are re- | quired to have their vehicles tested for lights and brakes efficiency, at this time. All garages in Juneau are | authorized to make the tests Juneau Police Department The Charles W. Carter | Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts, PHONE 136 | SIGRID’S | ] Ice Cream, Soft Drinks, Candy | BEAUTY SALON COFFEE SHOP | H Percy Reynolds, Manager | adv. DAN RALSTON, Chief S 5 s “The Store for Men” | Health Foods Center | BATTLE CRE , HAUS| | | SABIN’S {2 mggfimmfi“ H i Front St.—Triangle Bldg. “ s = F""“fr“e lf;'hom b | GARBAGE HAULE 7 ! Reasonable Monthly RalB | TOP NOTCI I | E. 0. DAVIS | { FOR FINE FOOD | TELEPHONE 212 ' Luncheons 50¢ | Fhone 473 I N Dinners 65¢ ’ _— L AR The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau, Alaska COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS Resources Over Two and One-Half Million Dollars k. DRY CLEANING | | Soft ' ic Suppl Water ‘\ Alaska Music Supply k- Washing Your | C. P A | 303-05 Goldstein Building i Public Stenographer ' | Notary Public | ALASKA LAUNDRY “YOUR APPEARANCE IS f OUR RESPONSIBILITY” | | Shattuck Bldg. Phone 318 | 7 i. i z % o ) ‘ t ! o SPECIALIZING | JUNEAU ‘ z | MELODY HOUSE In French | Music and Electric Appliances 4 (Next Gastineau Hotel) | Mrs. Pigg Phone 65 T I AT Dinners & s Arthur M. Uggen, Manager GAST]NEAU CAFE s Pianos—Musical Instruments | | , and Supplies 5 o fe: S s e g 4 . Secon g “‘w‘ Lode and placer location notices % for sale at The Empire Office. i Try the Empire classifieds for e results. Empire classifieds pay. / i H The First National Bank JUNEAU | PHONE 15 HARRY RACE DRUGGIST “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” Alaska Federal Savmgs (] | and Loan Asseciation Accounts Insured Up to $5,000 1 . O. Box 2718———Phone 3 OFFICE—119 Seward St. { Juneau, Alnska ® CAPITAL—$50.000 SURPLUS—$100.000 ‘ : COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS | SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES 2% Paid on Savings l Accounts i