The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1939, Page 4

ment; all those things which have a pleasant, normal sound. Daily Al aska Empire the floroscope “The stars incline -/ but do not oompel" SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1939 Conflicting planetary aspects are active today, according to astrology. but there is little danger of adverse domination. The mind may be in- clined toward discontent and unrest through the early morning. Labor today is well directed and the stars promise improvement in | working conditions amorg adults, though children who toil appear. to be overlooked. Decrease in unemployment is fore- | cast, but it will not be on a scale that - Teblig Sxom BADSAY. 27 But other men have been reading the same new, ;.",v HELEN TROY " ‘\ ) '; '.“f\”\“ “,“" ‘.\‘ - President | dispatches from Washington in their favorite papers SRR R I NART Vice-Pres ¢ and Business Manager | They are decent Americans, like Mr. John J. Jones; e Se. d € Alasia | they wish ill to no one and desire only to meet the W% ‘Eotered in the Post C Juneau as Second Class Matter, | Tent bill and to feed their families : In about 10,000,000 of the 30,000,000 American RS Deilverct by cars S R O R auriax for §1.25 per month. | families, meeting the rent bill has not been easy. g o the following r About 3,000,000 of these families are kept going o ou nce, $6.00: | )y W.P.A. jobs. The rema 7,000,000 are just man- N = ey % wpily notify | aging to make ends mee ol nes: N e, 602; Business Office, 374 | “Whewr” says Joe Jc W.P.A. worker, as he - ———!reads the dispatches which indicate that 1,000,000 st MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ' use for| W.P.A. jobs are to be wiped out. “This means me.”} o ? : c to it or not |He buys a 10-cent lunch instead of a two-bit lunch p . ; the local NeWs |yhat gay. The old shoes are pretty well shat, but - oft > | maybe they can be resoled just once more.. He has < ASEA CTROULATI( JARANTEED TO BE LARGER | (hat done, passing by the window in which he saw o SRR s s 0l - a1 the new $3.95 shoes he had wanted to buy. e y e Fenger-Hall Co. Ltd, with | (Behind that window stands Mr. John J. Jones, | i o wnd Ty Angeles, Portland. Seattle, CRICAS0. | 1, i egsman, full of confidence.) | —_— = “Wow!" says Jim Jones, shoe worker, as he reads | - | the paper. He knows business has been slow. In the | o back of his mind has been the thought that if he were | s~ fired, W.P.A. might find a place for him. ‘"W.P.A. has| fo | been a comforting ace in the hole. But now ) “Can we cut down a little?” he asks his wife. | “Let's save three bucks a week, that's a lot of money | these days.” | You can bet your eye teeth three bucks a week is | 1 lot of money. If in 10,000,000 homes, frightened ! I homes, homes in which the Washington news read: [like a portent of disaster, three bucks a week can be saved, that makes $30,000,000 a week, or $130,000,00 a month. That would be money snatched out of the cash jregisters of American business—almost as much in a | ___|month as the entire W.P.A. cut will save. [ And would taxes go down? If business loses $130.- | 1000,000 a month in volume, Government loses at least } $25,000,000 in tax revenue based on that volume. That MARSHAL PATTERSON v Some me of the Territorial Legislature are ving” of $150,000,000 may turn out to be the most r colleagues say. | expensive economy the nation ever made. | . o but to whom all atten- | B | ‘ ; ;s when he has sotties Joe Jones, on W.P.A., Jim Jones, shoe worker, are J R 5 | very important people to Mr, John J. Jones, business- | gee%8, S Patterson of Valdez. | € portant people to John J. Jones, business T & g ¢ ovary | T { ! warm respect of €Very| qpey are customers. Mr. John Jones may think he membe £ He is admired for his SINCETItY, | heeds confidence, What he really needs are enough . i nner and because he is a “g00d | gther Joneses in front of his counter to make the cash 1 H f ite Legislator, despite the fact | register play a sonata in nickels, dimes and dollars { he n't feel it necessary to be on his feet half It is Joe Jones who needs the confidence, and Jim | i me dav to show his virtuosity in deliver- | Jones who needs it. Confidence that they are going 4 Y e aren't going to change anybody's | 0 get by, that buying a pair of shoes, a dozen towels, a new suit, a little radio or a small insurance policy ik won't break them . SRR e e § Confidence at the bottom means customers. Plenty Senate erc of Jimmy Patterson’s appointment | ¢ ostomers means confidence at the top. | $. Marshal in the Third Division comes as glad ¢ a NEEREEE tic people here at the Alaska good is it for Mr. John J. Jones to be full 1 A been elevated to a good pe of confidence in an empty store? What good is it for Mr. John J. Jones to be full of confidence while his customers are frightened? Congra atior Marshal Patterson. WORKING FOR UNCLE “ Plancd fou: Hrattte In the year 1 ere were 191,771 persons Who (Cleveland Plain Dealer) took exam ns for positions in the civil service of the United States. I to 820,681. Six hen the To call the manufacture by private American sed companies of war planes for the French government an “alliance” between Washington and Paris is to {paint a commercial relationship as an international agreement. It unjustified and has no basis in truth. The fact that the National Munitions Control 1936 thi 2 number had inc have grown even nay be interpreted in two ways - employment as a profession b P Board, under the Neutrality Act of 1937, must issue . \ore people; the other that'; S e e licenses for the export of aircraft may give some people nt ol E: irn te t ofa job and turn 10, wrong jmpression of the facts i 4 SUorT, For months after the start of the Japanese war when protec vernment bought pianes and tes. These shipments to the ventually stopped at the Tokyo e United St Eastern ageressor were means security. not too strenuuos, Fa > work i a pension. These are government's reque: Washington realized that in { point of it was helping Japan against its own On hie r hand, promotion Is slow and per- | inter ally, under the licensing law, the ship- 3 me could have contin as no state of war has sonal ambit e ahead i lled by a cast-iron ¥ ¢ been found by the executive to exist in the Orient. < THers 48 Securiiy | France is not at war. No one will suggest that on does not mean being turned out Into| py supplying her with planes we will be injuring our e ups and downs of business do own uitimat Many contingencies can be e man in a Government position foreseen where France, because the political level and Sam is a kindly employer, and an increas- aims of people are so closely akin to our own, popular one would be in reality fighting our battle. In the event of an actual conflict between Prance and some other nation, war in which the United States was not direct involved, the neutrality law would halt the VANISHING FINGERPRINTS + shipment of planes as it wo tions o Shocking to mos it he assertion of District 8 of planes gs it woull other classitications ot 2 4 5 arms and munition. torney Thomas Dewey of New York, that only once The danger 41: MiBooloE Aicitean the past 20 years have the New York police found ' aproqc handicap it may place on the United N nts on a gun used in a murder or suicide.| States' own air force. It has been the policy of the » Vit e a serious slump in the busiest and|governim 10t to permit the export of the most mod- rative the literature industry, the'ern types. The French have sent a mission to this eI and perhaps in another country to make an emergency purchase of 600 war L LR ‘pmm\ Half of ese will be the famous 75A Curtiss Hawk pursuit one of which made the amazing rue tha ny character in a murder mys- | young men, but there is little chance diminishes relief . expendittires to any extent. > Theaters, the opera and concert halls should profit. New methods of amusing the pleasure-loving public are prognosticated. ! Severe weather in many parts of | the world will continue late in the spring, if the stars are rightly read Heavy losses through floods may be ' expected in the United States in places not hitherto inundated | A London astrologer foresees Rus- | n interference in the war in! China, although he prognosticates a of change, it is predicted. | Egypt is now under a rule of the| stars which is fairly favorable but | there are evil portents for the sum- mer. Many tourists are presaged for the coming months. Television is to become popular| before the end of the year after| sweeping improvements have been | made in the management of radio communication and the programs | offered over the air. | Girls may find this a lucky date! for making friends among eligible for real romance. Persons whose birthdate it is have | the augury of a yvear of uncertain- ties that finally may become profit- able. Unexpected good luck is fore-| cast for many. | Children born on this day may be imaginative and talented. Many of these subjects of Aquarius attain | success and wide popularity. They should be wisely guided, | (Copyright, 1939) | B Man W]o Saved | Two Hundred | . . . Lives Dies | | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17.— Credited with having saved @approxi- mately 200 persons from the boiling surf during his thirty years of ser ice as watchdog at San Francisco’s | Ocean Beach, Police Officer Arthur | J. Dolan, fifty-seven, is dead of a heart ailment. v | The beloved officer was a familiar figure to thousands. He patroled the beach from the CIliff House to| the south end of the Esplanade, | warning swrmmers and too daring fishermen | Two years ago he estimated that he had saved 150 persons attempt- ing suicide and thirty other drown- ing swimmers. Scores of his re: cues were made at extreme danger to his own life. Berries of the tangee tree, a rare| tropical plant, may be used in the same way as lipstick | NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:| That on February 15th, 1939, in the United States Commissioner’s Court for Juneau Precinct, Division No.| 1, Territory of Alaska, the under- signed was appointed administrator of the estate of Rita McCaul, de-| ceased. All persons having claims against said estate are required to| |a |and changes please YE AGO From EMPIRE 20 FEBRUARY 17, 1919 Gov. Thomas Riggs had been ad- vised by Justice Morrison of the Supreme Court of British Columbia that he was to arrive in Juneau on the night of February 25, and that the Princess Sophia hearing was to be held at 10 o'clock the following morning and the entire day of the 27th, in the Court House at Juneau B. L. Lane, managing director of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Com- pany, left Seattle on the Alameda and was to arrive here within a few days, F. F. W. Lowie left on the Ala- meda for Juneau after attending the hearing on the Princess Sophia disaster before the Canadian Wreck Commission in Victoria, B. C Cliff F. Gunning, a Juneau draft man who had recently been released from the service, was to arrive in Juneau on the Admiral Farragut Horace Adams, another one of the Juneau men drafted during the summer, who had been in the Army | crisis affecting the power of Stalin. ot camp Grant, had been released |The spring quarter is toibe a period | from the service and was to visit relatives in The Dalles and in Ta- coma before returning to Juneau. Fred Hamburg was in Chicago and on his way home, according to telegram received from him by friends here. Hamburg was a draft man and was to resume his former position as manager of the shoe de- partment of Goldstein's Emporium. Miss Louise Sprott, who had been employed at the B. M. Behrends Bank, left on the Pri Mary on her way to her home in California. R. E. Murphy. of the Bupont Pow- der Company. left on the Princess Mary for Seattle. Weather: Highest 33; lowest 31; light snow. e NEW TELEPHONE DIiRECTORY To be issued March 15 ana forms close March 1. For space, listing call Juneau and Telephone Co., phone 420 adv Douglas - 98 governor Out of Carolina ton. of What Is Your News I. Q.? By The AP Feature Service Each question counts 20; each part of a two-part question, 10. A score of 60 is fair, 80, good. 1. Why is this man, H. L. Child, called the “world’s fast- est human”? : 2. The portrait of what movie star was accepted by a New York art museum? 3. What country requires its young women to work a year on farms? e & wée Tl ir 1St Tialaniet 6o & iin :u-u,fd of 575 miles an hour in a free power dive lasi | present them, $‘v|t'),\ propes .\mlchers. 4. The federal power com- 4 e RAGE or olher dethel weanon ”w‘\uu. this new marvel of the air is permit. an_d vermed‘ as r;:q\mul by law, m; rnissio_n ffll{n}i electric rates in St ted ol fact that the army has even faster said administrator, at the office of | | American cities varied as much inf ‘ once ume his innocence; | and more modern ships under way | his attorney, Howard D. Stabler,|| as 300 per cent. True or false? A ¢ erprint has been so widely | Bri y purchased 200 light bombers | Shattuck Building, Juneau, Alaska, 5. Why did J. H. Lewis and Lo dlisse ¢ h murderous inténtions and 200 tr ines in this country. There is no within six months from the date of | | J. L. Barrow come to blows in would I N to wear gloves. If now aspir-| logical reason w ¢ French should not also be per- | this notice. Date of Notice: Febru-|| New York? § e it they can do their work |mitted to make these purck as long as they do|ary 17, 1939. ” blow to the glove trade. And| MOt interfere wil own defense program. As a MELVILLE LEATH, {Ansyiers oo SRRy S onfidence in murder-mystery | MAUEr of fact many factories would be idle now, wait- | ; Administrator. | R T |ing for the new American program to get under way, |Publication dates: February 17, 24; were { o Aoreten Drde arch 3, 10, 193 there e certam established and 'Tq call these French purchases an “alliance” comef | pmm———————— (Authorized Dealers) a grateful oasis in an otherwise near to doins 1t attitude is not neutrality. rn“x HELLEB l GREASES dable world. But if fingerprints ality consist ely of looking after one’s own i Foot of Main Street how much more of this scientific | interests while trying to stay out of any conflict. BARBER 3 A chemical analysis of blood- - - Temporarily located at } TR i ppearing effects of certain poisons, | A Seldom-Used Weap« | Robert Light's Barber Shop ‘ If the truths of detective fiction turn - — e | | NEXT TO ALASKAN HOTEL | Jlmeall unlors d evanescent as some dogmas Cincinna quirer) | SR, iy N take 18, aoBtidanos 10 He Impeachmen not an effective weapon when e i even a majori { Congress would like to remove a |\ civil otficer of the executive or judicial branch. In all % : N H e o our national history © have been but nine Federal b Business Needs Custemers; Customers |impeachments, and in sse cases only three persons 3 Need Confidence were convicted and removed from office. That is a - SR s £mall record for a century and a half of history. p il Racosds The introduction of an impeachment resolution The B.M. Behrends W Mr, John J. Jones, American |diTected against the first woman cabinet member & by r ill to no one, and wants only | zain the question of this rarely used power Bank . t i world and meet his payroll, . In contrast 1o the rule in England, im- - M n't like to see anyone go hungry,|Peachment is possible § ir Federal Government only eqau, - 8 action he could help every man in the | for “treason, br other high crimes and mis- Jun Alaska - : ng do. it demeanor It been used largely to seek to re- M oesn’t have ‘time to study eco- '!;4‘\' v:w ges, bec cannot_be removed from | keeps a man busy | ¢ffice b othier T & COM C iy 1 c e hears speakers at | Only I i history has a cabinet offi- 13 MEB IAL 1 g all the country|Cer been impe ed—Secretary of War Wilson W, n i b e bal. | Belknap, 1 He hurged with bribery or d S GS ar b e con- | something ak lly was acquitted, an AVIN : P | ng resigued ine I 1L requires a majority ote of the Hou ” 1 two-thirds vote of the 3 > i) v p his | Senate to con : ads. that the House| Mrs. Perki ause of her failure 10 Resources Over Two and and S £ « $150,000,000 from the e deportation proce against a labor leader. Pre 000,000 for five month: ince impeachable f are nited severely b, i1l T DS Of | Bonsiltution and do not pparentist Sl il One-Half Million Dollars » act with th 1 ted by opposition members I n e W I Cor there I m on the surface of 18 wi i nts! | th to ar Pate impeachment in this case, 1 Apparently the thir wer ta il of private England needs most ight now 1 with Ireland, to be merged South | 19 were natives of Charles- | The Emptre extends congratula- tions and best wishes today, their birthday anniversary .o the follow- ing: FEBRUARY 17 Oscar Harri Howard R. York James Ruotsala Mary Jukich Arthur Vienola Bill Jorgenson * By Roberta Lee Q. When a woman is introduced to a man, should she offer her hand? A. This is entirely optional; she may if she wishes, but it is seldom done. And the man should never be the first to extend his hand. Q. When traveling in a Pullman car is a passenger expected to pay for the use of a pillow, in daytime? A. No. A pillow will be furnished without extra charge if requested. Q. How should one eat from a spoon? A. The food should always be taken from the side of the spoon, and never from the point. ‘ DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH * By W. L. Cordon Words Often Misused: Do not say. “It is real cold today.” Say, “It is very cold today.” Often Mispronounced: Children Pronounce last syllable dren, e un- stressed, not chil-d Often Misspelled: suberb. Synonyms: Reticence, reserve, se- retiveness, uncommunicativeness. | Word Study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's wort | Incapacitate; to deprive of powe! to render unfit. “Concentrated at- | tention, unbroken by rest, so pros- | trates the brain as to incapacitate {it for thinkin, H. Spencer. e e—— Suburb; not LOOK and LEARN | * By A. C. Gordon 1. Next to the rose. what flower ranks highest in florists’ sales? 2. What famous explorer is cred- ited with introducing smoking to- bacco to Europe? 3. In what battle was the com- mand given, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes"? 4. Which is the fastest animal for short distances? 5. Where is the westernmost | post of the U. 8.2 i ANSWERS { 1. The sweet pea. , 2. Sir Walter Raleigh. | 3. Battle of Bunker Hill, in the Revolutionary War. | 4. The cheetah, or hunting leop- jard of India ! 5. Cape Alva, Wash. | | Empire Classified Ads for results. EM CLEANING PHONE 15 Alaska Laundry _ TO SELL 2 WANT TO BUY L] USE THE “WANT” ADS " Dr. A. W. Stewart l DRS. KASF”. & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 DENTIST Hours 9 am. fo 6 pm. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469 | CHIROPRACTOR Drugless Physician | Office hours: 10-12, 1-5, 7-9 Rooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. PHONE 667 | | SRR iz i SRR | DR.H VANCE | OSTEOPATH Consultation and examinaton free. 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