The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 1, 1938, Page 4

PRRTTTITRIRrm———. o Daily Alaska Empire v the Published every evening except Sunday EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY HELEN TROY BENDER - - - - erestdent R. L BERNARD - - Vice-President Business Manager Second and Main Strects, J Alaska Entered 1n the Post Office tn Juneau as Second Class M SUBSCRIPTION RATES. g Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Do-glas for §1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the f & rate One year, in advance. $1200; six mon one month. in advance, $1.25 Bubscribers will $6.00; P N Telephiones s Office, 602 MIMBER OF ASSOC The Associated Press | republication of all news otherwise credited in this published here! ED TO BE LARGER OTHER PUBLICATION ALASKA CIRCU! THAN THAT OF OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS AT JUNEAU'S DOOR Again comes knocking at Juneau’s door to get a number of needed improvements in the opportunity city at a little more than half the actual cost The Public Works Aaministration has approved $170,000 worth of public projects for the city which include street, sidewalk sewer improvements, By its approval, it agrees to grant outright to the city 45 percent of the cost and will take the city’s bonds for the remaining 55 percent at 4 percent, although the city may sell its bonds elsewhere if d e and At the same ume, the War Department has de- cided to go ahead with the construction of a small boat harbor in Juneau with the provision that the city provide the terminal facilities, estimated to cost $88,000 aside from the $: 000 which the War Depart- ment will expend in building the harbor And here again the PWA figures in the picture The city has asked the Public Works Administration for like approval on the terminal facilities that it has given on the street improvements—grant of 45 percent of the cost. Interior Secretary Ickes when he was here recently indicated to Mayor Lucas that the request would get serious consideration | Now the question is up to the taxpayers of Juneau The City Council has agreed unanimously to call a special city election for September 20 at which time those whose names appear on the tax roll can decide whether to issue bonds to provide the $141900 needed | by the city to handle its portion of the cost of the street improvements and the terminal facilities The city's bonded debt at the present time is $196,000, a small part of the ten percent of its valua- tion which is permitted by law. The fact is that when | the additional bond issue is voted, as it is expected to be, the bonded debt will be only $337,900, or ap- prox tely half of the ten percent which could be issued by the city. If a reappraisal and true valua- tion of property in the city were taken it probably would prove to be much less than half. A thorough reappraisal is conceded by most taxpayers to be something which the city should undertake another | year. In the meantime, the city's taxpayers are bvlng‘ asked for their approval of an additional bond issue and they must decide on September 20. | Simply on the basis of the city’s present sound | financial standing there should be little hesitation | in giving approval. But there is more to it than just| issuing some bonds to provide improvements. That | could be done most any time by paying the full cost. | But in this instance the city will be getting improve- ments which will materially boost its valuation, in- crease business, and at the same time get them for a little more than half the actual cost. Government funds will pay for 45 percent. Government funds which are a grant; money which will not have to be paid back at some future date. There are few soundly managed business would not venture expansion if they could be ured that somebody was going to donate them 45 percent of the cost of that expansion. The proposition now before the voters of Juneau is purely a business expansion proposition in which a rich uncle by the name of Sam agrees to provide 45 percent of the necessary money s which What property owner wouldn't improve his prop- erty if his neighbor walked over some morning and agreed to stand 45 percent of the expense without asking a dollar back, especially if he knew the im- provement was going to bring him an increased cash income? That is what the improvemen s now proposing will do. The small boat harbor will bring increased reve- nue, new business. Small boats, and there are scores of them, will be serv Juneau instead of going the city of Juneau ed to Ketchikan and S Facilities which can service the government boats stationed in Juneau, the fishing fleet, the countless pleasure boats and other craft will bring dollars and cents into the city which now go elsewhere. The building of street connections to the harbor will bring additional prop- erty to the tax roll and increase valuations. Paving of Willoughby Avenue, Twelfth Street and up the hill to the connection at Calhoun likewise will increase valuation in addition to saving the huge ex- pense to which the city is now put in sprinkling streets and maintaining the graveled thoroughfares. City officials estimate it costs from $8 to $12 a day to keep Willoughby Avenue in fairly satisfactory condition. This saving alone will go a long ways toward retiring the bond issue. Widening of South Seward Street, which is in- cluded in the project, will give the city a decent approach from the waterfront to the downtown section. to fire prevention in moving fire fighting equipment about handily. If Ferry Way is improved as is now being considered, it will mean two excellent approaches from the waterfront. Nothing is needed in the city ‘more than the sewers being planned for Willoughby Avenue and lower waterfront district areas. They have been a crying need for yeais. proposed projects. All of the projects are things which the These are included in the | monopoly. It will enhance business and prove a boon | | be overlooked that at a future date, the city, which{ means the taxpayers of Juneau, would have to pay the going price. At least, there is no assurance that Public Works Administration program is going to last forever, or that Juneau will again have oppor- tunity to participate it. It is more than likely that this will be au's last opportunity to get these improvem cents on the dollar. But regarc of the who can ask for a better price? Opportunity is king at the door. Juneau taxpayers d not fail to heed the offer on Sep- tember 20 to get some much-needed revenue-produc- ing rovements at a little more than half the actual Alaska’s Military Plight Brought Before Legionnaires Los Angeles Daily Powerful military defenses for the Pacific Coast America’s “western front are almost certain to m one of the serious subjects before the national can Legion convention here in September One indication is evident in the Legion Magazine July, which carries what probably is the best ever compiled on the bitter Bering Sea and I Bay fisheries dispute with Japan. It was written by Clyde R. Ellis, Legionnaire of Anchorage, Alaska, whose calm words, free of any jingoism, con- vincingly reveal the perils of our salmon industry— and also the military helplessness of this rich and unprotected salient of the United States. Despite his d sionate recital, the sportsman- like American citizen is likely to flare angrily over the exposures For years the Bureau of Fisheries, the salmon packers and the marine unions have abided by a set of rules more rigid than those of a football or base- ball contest. Only one month of fishing is allowed each year (even this has two “rest” intervals), and so sporting are the provisions, that the fishermen | are not allowed power boats, but race to the grounds in tiny sailing sloops with two- and three-man crews. Consequently, the catch has been Kept within the spawning and the supply could endure for centuries. Imagine the wrath of these men when the field is raided by greedy, unscrupulous foreign pirates, who could destroy the richest salmon ground of the world—America’s own—in a few years! Tokyo denies that any Japanese ships are licensed to flsh for salmon anywhere near the American waters. But Ellis specifically charges that despite the mild assurances of the Japanese Government made last March, such raiding is still going on He asserts that large-tonnage “mother ships” floating canneries, are constantly in the salmon area, ostensibly to trap crabs. But the gear they carry is salmon nets for surface fishing. Crabs are caught at the bottom with different equipment, he laconically relates. According to Ellis, the packers have obtained their evidence by airplane. The Legion Magazine article relates one incident that will please Americans. Japanese financiers ap- proached American packers in Seattle with a pro- posal that they form a joint company—a trust-like The idea was that Japanese labor was so much cheaper than American that the profits would be immense. The packers scorned the plan. So the Japanese intimated they would go ahead— as an American corporation. The Fishermen's Union chief stepped in and informed the Japanese just what | would happen to their ships and men when they tried to unload in an American port. At first be- wildered, Mr. Moto and his pals soon were convinced, and you'll hear no more of that. Ellis’ military conclusions carry some alarm. To quote him: “The American Legion in Alaska has advocated establishment of a military air base in the Territory It has pointed to the continued unrest in the Orient. It has called attention to the fact that Alaska is but fifty miles from the Siberian Coast. that a fleet of planes could fly from Japan to the Territory and fol- low the chain of islands extending westward. The ngest stretch of water that would have to be crossed 300 miles. Planes can land on inland-protected lakes in the islands for the entire distance . . . With its great natural resources of fish, farm products, coal and oil, the Territory would be attractive to a | foreign invader.” Complete fortification of Alaska is advocated by the magazine writer, ; Of course, all nations, East and West, are busy elsewhere at the moment—but with a s : open to conquest by a foreign foe our lation” appears less splendid, as it does yearly, any- way. News) Am for Dream of Internationalism (Cincinnat: Enquirer) | Miss Sylvia Parkhurst, whose mother won | fame by smashing windows in London as an argument for Women's rights, has reached middle age. She in- herited a desire to agitate. Now that women iuie the roost, as it were, since they vote and have won the right to hold office, Miss Parkhurst has not found ! her occupation gone. She thinks women should lead the “movement for the economic betterment of the mass She holds “the idea of internationalism, in the sense that the world is everyman's country.” But that concept, she finds, alas, is losing ground. Preaching the brotherhood of man, Miss Park- hurst believes in what Tennyson called “the federa- tion of the world.” She pictures a world where there are no frontiers, where men could move from one | ountry to another, or from one continent to another, as freely as we may go to Kentucky or to Indiana, or 1s freely as the citizens of those states may come to Ohio. This is a beautiful dream. Tt will not become a eality in Miss Parkhurst's lifetime, or in the lifetime f anyone now living. More than ever before the nations of the world stand separate and apart. They have built up tariff walls. They decline to accept trangers to their fellowship. Those afflicted and sersecuted, whom one great country threatens to *ast naked from its borders, find no place to go. No ther country opens its arms to receive them. The | eason is. of course, that there is no place for therp, | 10 work for them to do. That is a matter of eco- | nomics. The dectrine of internationalism runs up | against the hard law of necessity. If we cannot | oroperly provide for our own people, it is manifest ‘hat aliens must knock at our doors in vain, | Yet it is not economics alone which has shattered | ‘he fine ideal of the brotherhood of man. Tt is the srowth of an intense spirit of nationalism. The old Greeks believed all peoples who were not Greek were | »arbarians; the Israelites thought themselves to be | he children of God and the rest of the world counted | for nothing. That is very much what all the nations | °f the world are coming to—a belief in the fact that | ‘hey alone are the chosen people. | Shirley Temple says that she started to keep a | diary but gave it up because it got too long. That | sigh you hear is from another motion Picture actress | Who kept a diary too long, and had to listen to it read |in court The national annual gambling loss is eslfl‘;lau'd |to be seven billion dollars. What'dya say we shoot for double or nothing? v | Australia wants to increase its population. We! have some crooners and politicians we would g;lm:ll)v city must undertake at some time. And it cannot contribute, ‘ l % THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 1, HAPPY. BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratula- tions and best wishes today, ‘their birthday anniversary, to the follow- ing: SEPTEMBER 1 George Messerschmidt Al Noren Glenwald Kirkham Dean R. Johnson Ralph Merrill Harry J. Hansen .- DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH By W. L. Gordon - - Words Often Misused: Do not sav “He allowed he would go,” or “He allowed to pay it.” Say, “He intend- ed to go,” and, “He intended to pay it.” Often Mispronounced: Gondola Pronounce gon-do-la, fi 0 as in on, second o as in obey, a as in ask unstressed, accent first syllable, not k3 — the second. Often Misspelled: Allege; not alledge. Synonyms: Reply, response, re- tort, rejoinder, repartee, answer. Word Study: “Use a word three times and it is you crease our vocabulary one word each day Factual; relating to, or containing facts. “Most of the news, by mewspaper men, was straightfor- ward and factual” D > ' LOOK and LEARN By A. C. Gordon - | -~ - 1. What are the first and last books of the King James version of | the Bible? 2. Of what country is the kan- garco a native? 3. Who was the creator of the great fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes? 4. What is thes meaning of the term “Casus belli"? 5. What is the capital city of Peru? ANSWERS 1. Genesis and Revelation 2. Australia. 3. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 4. Cause of war. 5. Lima. - .- MODERN ETIQUETTE By Roberta Lee Q. When should the bride throw her bouquet to her bridesmaids? A. When she goes upstairs to change from her wedding gown to her going-away dress. Q. When a man asks a girl for a “date,” should he tell her what his plans are for the evening? A. Yes, it is proper to do so. Q. When does the cookery term au naturel mean, and how is it pro- nounced? A. It is a French term meaning “cooked simply.” Pronounce o-na- tu-rel, o as in no, a as in ask, u |as in unit, e as in bell, principal accent on last syllable. Race Horse Buying SYDNEY, N. S. W., Sept. 1. —The man-in-the-street in Australia may become a racehorse owner if the proposal to form a'company for the purchasing of racing stock is successful. A prospectus has been filed by a concern, which is to be called the Bloodstock Company of New South Wales. with a nominal capital of $100,000 “to buy horses which will earn money.” Fifty-thousand shares will be offered for public subscrip- tion, e Interrupting his fishing to res- cue a girl from drowning, a 13- year-old boy went home, changed his clothes and was back with rod and line within half-an-hour, at written | 19 NI SRR | Horoscope “The stars incline but do not compel” 38. 20 Years Ago From The Empire 1 £ o FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. 1938 Again the stars presage fluctuat- ing good and bad luck for dwellers on the earth. According to astrology conflicting planetary aspects are active today. The early morning hours should be favorable to employment and to better feeling among workers. Older persons come under fortu- nate planetary conditions. Pension plans of various sorts will be pushed and the aged will benefit especially in western states. Statesmen who study the philoso- phy of history will gain respectful hearings, but there will be slow ac- ceptance of their warnings regard- ing international crises. Danger of fires forecast through this month when in many | places droughts have increased pos- sibility of instantaneous combus- tion. Forest conflagrations will re- sult in serious losses. Fairs and expositions will draw large crowds to displays revealing agricultural and industrial develop- ment. | SEPTEMBER 1, 1918 | G. Fenton Cramer, secretary to! | Gov. Thomas Riggs, and Mrs. Cra-| | mer, were the parents of a son and | | heir, the young man born in Wash- | ington, DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER PROFESSIONAL FRATERNAL SOCIETIES GASTINEAU CHANNEL B. P. 0. ELKS meet every Wednesday at 8 DENTISTS p.m. Visiting brothers Blomgren Building welcome. C. H. Mae- PHONE 56 SPADDEN, Exalted Rul- Hours 3 am. to 9 pm. D. C. e —— S er; M. H. €IDES, Sec- ' retary. St. Ann's School was to begi the fall semester, and the pubi school was to open a few days later. | United States Marshal J. M. Tan- | | ner returned from a business trip| in the south on the Jefferson, and! ', was staying at the Gastineau Ho- tel. Miss Blanche Dyer, a teacher in | | the public school, returned on the | Jefferson after spending her vaca- i tion in the south. Mrs. J. A. Gillman was a pas- | senger through Juneau on the Jef- i ferson. She was a teacher of a na- :tivs school and was on her way to, | Haines. | Dr. Charles P. jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9, Valentine Bldg. TELEPHONE 176 Dr. Richard Williams | DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE | GOLDSTEIN BUILDING MOUN™ JUNEAU LODGE NO. 14? L Second and fourth * Monday of each month G ‘n Scottish Rite Tempie \/\‘ beginiaing at 7:30 pm. “$”" DANIEL ROSS, Wor- shipful Master; VELDS, Secretary. JAMES W. LEI- T T REBERAHS | Perseverance Lodge No. 2-A meets every second and fourth Wednes- day, 1.0.OF. Hall. BETTY Mec- CORMICK, Noble Grand; RUTB | BLAKFR. Secretary. & da | Dr. Judson Whittier CHIROPRACTOR Drug'ess Physician | Guy Smith § | DRUGS | a St | g+ | New fortunes will pile up before| Mrs. G. J. Swenson moved from Office hours: 10-12, 1-5, 7-9 DIE |the end of the year, A few depres- | the Bishop Apartments to the Zyn-| | Rooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. s sion victims will become sudden pos- | 42 Hotel. H PHONE 667 PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- | sors of wealth. Though tears and |blood are shed by thousands, their jsacrifice will bring wealth to per- ns in places of the Sun. The cost of living will increase 1in many American cities. Money will ! be spent lavishly for sports and re- | creations. | Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of success through lucky investments. Both men and women will profit. Children born on this day prob- ably will be inclined toward prac- tical points of view. These subjects |of Virgo are independent and stub- | born. | Hiram W. Johnson, United States Senator, was born on this day 1866. Others who have celebrated it as a birthday include Murat Halstead, | editor, 1829; Eugene Field, journal- ist and poet, 1850. (Copyright, 1938) - KEITH WILDES WILL | ‘GO SOUTH FRIDAY | TO RECEIVE HONORS | Keith G. Wildes, Juneau repre- sentative of New York Life In- surance Company, recently promot- led to a vice presidency and a seat | in the Top 200 Club, is leaving Ju- neau on the Princess Louise tom row morning, bound for New York At Seattle, Wildes will board a | plane for New York to confer with | officials of his company and will then go to Bretton Woods, N. H., for a meeting of the Top 200 Club, made up of the 200 agents in each department selling the most insur- ance during the year. Wildes has been given vice pre: dency of the North Pacific Depart- west and Alaska. He made his en- viable record in Juneau alone. .- MARTHA SOCIETY MEETING FRIDAY Members of the Marta Society will hold their first meeting in prepara- tion for fall activities tomorrow af- ternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the form of a dessert-luncheon, in the par- lors of the Northern Light Presby- terian Church. Hostesses for the afternoon will be Mrs. Madsen Streed, and Mrs. Sid ‘Thompson, i SO B During the siege of Paris in 1871 there were 64 balloons sent up with 91 passengers, 354 pigeons and 3,000,000 letters, You DINE BE WHEN YOU DINE AT THE ROYAL CAFE Dinners from 5 till 9 Daily. Special Sunday Dinners 11 to 9. ST JUNO-MAID ICE CREAM In Dishes, Cones or Bulk Oxford- England. The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau, Alaska COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS Resources gyer Two and One-Half -E@lion Dollars ment, inclusive of the Pacific North- | | E. R. Stivers, of the Customs Ser- |, ‘vine. Department of the Governor § | office, and his family, took a win- | ter apartment at the Zynda. ! | T, AL | |ELLEN REPP LEAVES | | FOR NEW YORK AFTER | SUCCESSFUL SUMMER |, The Seattle Times of August 28 i tells of Miss Ellen Repp’s departure Monday for New York: When Miss Ellen Reep, contralto, leaves tomorrow for New York City, after a successful summer of con- certizing in her native Northwest, she will carry with her the manu- Dr. A. W. Stewart | DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 p.m. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469 FULLY COMPOUNDED Front Street Next Colisemm PHONE ®i~-Free Delivery — 3 “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” DR. H. VANCE OSTEOPATH | Consultation and examination | | free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; | i 7 to 9:30 by appointment. Gastineau Hotel Annex | South Franklin St. Phane 177 Halyorer seript of a new song, written espe- | - cially for her. It is “Softly Falls|| the Snow, music by Amy Worth| | Robert Simpson, Opt.D. || | Graduate Los Angeles College | | of Optometry and Opthalmology | (Mrs. Harry 1. Worth) of Seattle, and lyrics by Marjetta Kennard (Mrs. Hunter Kennard) of Tacoma. Worth was inspired to set Kennard's words to music for g Juneau’s Own Store “The Rexall Store” Miss Repp after hearing the con- tralto sing at Meany Hall, “Sofly Falls the ow” will ap-' | pear on Miss Repp’s program at ! Town Hall January 13. | Queen Mary College, University | of London. largely endowed by » | e i) | R Ry Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground [ Reliabke < = 3 i pharmacssts ———— | compouné | prescrip- Jones-Stevens Shop | tions. | LADIES'—MISSES’ i ] LA aaney ! Butler-Mauro Drug Co. | | Seward Street Near Third | R S P relatives of the Queen Mother, is being rebuilt and modernized, with & a new arts building to open Octo- | ber 12. | - - Try the rmpue ciass.lieds fo1 esults. Have Your Eyes Examined by | Dr. Rae L. Carlson OPTOMETRIST Office Ludwig Nelson’s Jewelry Store —=| H.S. GRAVES ! “The Clothing Man’ 1 l Howe of Hart Schaftner and Marx Clothing Phone Green 331 | | =" "GASTINEAU MOTOR TIMELY CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS QUALITY WORK CLOTHING FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates PAUL BLOEDHORN S. FRANKLIN STREET SERVICE PHONE 727 GENERAL AUTO REPAIRING Gas—Oil—Storage - 4| J.B.WARRACK Complete Outfitter for Men L ZORIC SYSTEM CLEANING Phone 15 FRED HENNING h ON THE MEZZANINE HOTEL JUNEAU BEAUTY SHOP LYLAH WILSON Contoure X-Er-Vae il W MR sl Engineers—Contractors JUNEAU = 2 | COME N and SEE the NEW | STROMBERG-CARLSON | Telephone | 538 | RADIOS ALASKA LAUNDRY [*————————%|| J. 'B. Burford & Co. oy il i e Dol L afadeladl] “NEW AND DIFFERENT “Our door step is worn by | - ! FOOTWEAR” Satistied Customers” | “The Store for Men” SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. KRAFFT’S DEVLIN’S Paris Fashion Shoes — JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE Music and Electric Apphances (Next Gastineau Hotel) Mrs. Pigg ) Thone 65 Mnfg. & Building Co., Inc. CABINET WORK—GLASS PHONE 62 PORTRAITS—by TED COWLING Phone 369 —photographer Old 1st. Natl. Bank Bldg. HARRY RACE DRUGGIST “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” £ - Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Association | Accounts Insured Up to $5,000 P. O. Box 2718———Phone 3 OFFICE—119 Seward St. Juneau, Alaska Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Instruments and Supplies Phone 206 COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ‘Try the Empire classifieds for results. LUNCHEON SPECIALTIES IS 122 W. Second | | y,3, an placer location netioes for sale at The Empire Office. — Empire classifieds pay. The First National Bank JUNEAU o - CAPITAL—$50,000 SURPLUS—$100,000 ® ACCOUNTS SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES 2% Paid on Savings ‘ Accognh