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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-04-28
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION TO THE ELECTORS OF THE

= CITY OF JUNEAU, ALASKA:
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That pursuant to an act of Con gress entitled An Act to authorize the incorporated City of Juneau, Alaska, to undertake certain muni- cipal public works, including re- grading and paving of streets and sidewalks; installation of sewer and water pipes; bridge construction and replacement; construction of concrete bulkheads, and construc- ton of refuse incinerator; and for such purposes to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $103,000', ap- proved April 25, 1884. and pursuant to Resolution of the Common Coun- Gil of the City of Juneau, Alaska, a special election will be held in the said City of Juneau, Alaska, on the 22nd day of May, 1884. between the hours of g am. and pm. of said day. at which said election the qualified electors of and in the said incorporated city of Juneau, Alaska, whose names appear on the last assessment roll of said city for municipal taxation, are invited to vote on the following mentioned questions or propositions, to-wit.
 CD Whether are not the in- corporated City of Juneau, AL aska, shall issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $5l, 400, pay able in thirty years from the date thereof, bearing interest at rate of not more than SC per annum, and the proceeds thereof to be used for the pur- pose of regarding and paving streets and sidewalks.
 CD Whether or not the in- corporated City of Juneau. AL aska, shall issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $2,750. pay able in thirty years from the date thereof, bearing interest at a rate of not more than 6%o per annum, and the proceeds thereof to be used to install sewer and water pipes.
 f3) Whether or not the in- corporated City of Juneau, AL aska, shall issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $5,000, pay able in thirty years from the date thereof, bearing interest at a rate of not more than 6% per annum, and the proceeds thereof to be used to construct a new bridge over Gold Creek at Calhoun Road.
 (4) Whether or not the in- corporated City of Juneau, AL aska, shall issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $12,850, pay able in thirty years from the date thereof, bearing interest at a rate of not more than 6% per annum, and the proceeds thereof to be used to construct concrete bulkheads on Cas- tineau Avenue and Calhoun Road or Avenue.
 (5) Whether or not the in- corporated City of Juneau, AL aska, shall issue bonds in any sum not exceeding s25 900. pay able in thirty years from the date thereof, bearing interest at a rate of not more than 6% per annum, and the proceeds thereof to be used to construct a refuse incinerator.
 (6) Whether are not the in- corporated City os Juneau, AL aska shall issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $6,000. pay able in thirty years from the
Evening star., 1934-12-13

international organization embarks
upon the experiment of utilizing armed
forces for the execution OF one OF Its
mandates. The League is charged,
under the treaty of Versailles. with re-
sponsibility for a free and fair vote
when the time comes for the residents
of the Saar to choose their future
political and territorial status.
Not long ago there were alarming
indications that France would seek the
approval of the League for plan
to march French troops into the Basin
to ward of the peril of Nazl ''putsch"
on the eve or al the time of the pleb-
iscite next month. The Germans bit
terly resented this threat and the
ancient specter of grave trouble in the
Saar seemed to be assuming the char
scter OF an early reality.
Sane craftsmanship in both Berlin
and Paris won the day. with the re-
suit thai neutral international force
was decided upon for policing pur-
poses. 1t will occupy the Basin on
December % and remain until the
plebiscite has taken place on Jan
uary Is. The fact that Germany and
France have already agreed on an
amicsble settlement for transfer OF
the coal mines to Germany, plus the
prospect that the Saarois will vote by
large majority to resume their old
roles as citizens OF the Reich, holds
out strong probability that the situa
ton which has filled Europe with
anxiety for SO many years is at length
to vanish from the danger realm. The
result is a feather in the Leagues
none too handsomely decorated cap
and one that nobody will begrudge it
Evening star., 1934-12-13
Kept Wondering.

From the New York Sun.
What fate can be read in the stars
for the N. r. A. of 1888? Nothing
whatever has been approved yet by
President Roosevelt, if all signs from
Washington are reliable. Many ideas
have been advanced by officials OF the
administration for the improvement
of Federal regulation of business. Be-
tween now and New Year day there are
likely to be several conferences 10 ois-
cuss changes in the present Industrial
recovery act, with the object OF re-
modelling it when the act expires next
June. If Mr.. Richberg's talk to the
manufacturers is an earnest OF Fed
eral intentions. new recovery leeisla-
ton must enforce cooperation.
1t may be taken for granted the next
N. r. A. law will be different In several
respects from the existing law. One
of the basic problems is to create
better machinery for enforcing the
fair-practice codes. Will the antitrust
laws be altered so that trade and in
dustry will know more specifically
what is legal and what is not legal In
business cooperation? Will some
agency of the Government have power
to fix minimum wages and maximum
Evening star., 1934-12-13
Samuel Johnson.

Today certain Englishmen and
probably some Americans will go TO
Westminster Abbey to pay tribute to
Samuel johnson, the Grand Cham Of
British letters. The occasion is the
one hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of his departure from the world
scene. 1t was on the evening Of De-
cember l3, 17S4. that he found rest
from the physical ills and mental
torments which always had afflicted
him.
But 1t Is not Johnson's death that
will be commemorated Rather, 1t will
be his life-the great career which
he had, despite his handicaps. Few
other men ever have triumphed over
difficulties so successfully or left SO
notable a name. He was born to suf-
fer, a creature OF many infirmities. u
His inheritance included an awkward
body, defective eyesight, inordinate
pride and sensitivity. a morbid pro-
penSity to sloth. q gloomy and irrita-
BILE temper and bitter poverty. His
education, in the accepted meaning of
the word, was inconsequential. At
twenty-five he launched himself on an
enterprise of literary conquest which
Evening star., 1934-12-13
A League Army.

Close on the heels of its achievement
In preventing war between Yugoslavia
and Hungary the Council at Geneva
has chalked up another record by Gre
adng a League of Nations army"
It is the international force organized
for the purpose of supervising the
Forthcoming plebiscite in the Saar
which is to decide whether the terri
tory shall remain under League juris-
diction, return to Germany or become
part of France. Both the Germans
and the French assented to the forma-
Non OF the Saar army" and will share
the expense involved in sending it to
the Basin and maintaining 1t until
it's work is accomplished. The force
will consist of 1900 British troops,
1900 Italian, $50 Dutch and $50 Swe-
dish. The total of $500 men will be
commanded by British general. but
will be responsible exclusively to the
Saar Basin governing commission, as
the agent of the League.
Thus, for the first time, the Geneva
Evening star., 1934-12-13
No Need TO Sacrifice Potomac Park
For Use as a Commercial Airport

And what would be gained in ex-
change for this great sacriTice? A
second-rate airport In the measure
that East Potomac Is We'll adapted Tor
park purposes. II appears ~ he Ill
adapted for airport purposes. Unless
the speedway is to be immediately
given up. the field would be belted
about by roadway sometimes Jammed
with four lines of automobiles. II the
danger in the road crossing the CEN
ter of the Washington Hoover Field Is
obvious. this greater danger, with the
aid OF little imagination. should be
more striking. The East Potomac
Field would be girdled on the west by
tie high-poWer lines OF the railroad,
on the north by the tall Government
heating plant. on the east by the
Naval Air Station and Boiling Field.
from which the air is often crowded
with Navy and Army planes. Bound
ed on three sides by water and on
the other by the railroad. there would
be no possibility of expansion OF the
field should future needs require.
Less than i've minutes farther away
Is the present washing lol-lioONtT
Field and the site OF the proposed
Gravelly Point Field. If the Military
road were closed the Washington
Hoover Field would take care OF the
needs of the District for some time TO
come This road should be closed im-
mediately. The ever-present danger
of q crash between a big passenger
plane and a crowded Alexandria or
Arlington bus is d threat to lie that
creates an emergency. 1t should not
be necessary 10 make a dozen or more
Alexandria or Arlington children Or
phans or fstherless or motherless III
order to demonstrate to the respon-
sible officials this obvious danger.
But if this road We're closed. the field
would have a number OF advantages.
1t Is already equipped with buildings
and lights, and. if necessary, 1t can
be greatly expanded. Gravelly Point
may have even greater advantages.
One thing appears to be clear.
There is no urgent need for WASH
ington to sacrifice one of Its best loved
and most used parks on the altar OF
the god of speed.
CARLETON K. LEWIS.
Evening star., 1934-12-13
The Spirit of Carrie Nation.
From the Portland Oreeonisn.

From the Portland OreRonlan.
The militant feminine prohibition
lists of Kansas, not content with the
reaffirmation of the States traditional
drought by an enormous majority,
have sworn to make an end of 81 beer
or resurrect the hatchet OF Mistress
Carrie Nation. With all respect to
these excellent crusaders, it may be
said that they we're born perhaps 30
years too late. There is no place Tor
Carrie Nation in the modern scheme
Of things.
When Carrie tied on her funny
black bonnet, wrapped six bricks in
newspaper and set forth from Medl-
cine Lodge. Kans.. for the sinful Baby
lon OF Kiowa the hitching rack era
was still in its heyday. She conveyed
woe to three saloon keepers that after
noon, and later took up the hatchet,
which is inseparable from her sainted
memory. Carrie and her hatchet
roved the United States, with nobody
admiring her more than did the bar
tenders. She went abroad and wrecked
saloon in Newcastle-on-Tyne. But
there was little diversion in that SIM
pier period. and Carrie Nation was
welcomed where now she would be
considered only foolish old woman
who must be suppressed.
The women Of Kansas will be i'll
advised If they attempt to emulate
Carrie Nation in the present. There
are lawful ways of bringing about
their purpose. Not even the plea Of
reformation Is sufficient to adorn .
| violent intolerance.
Evening star., 1934-12-13
Townsend Pension Proposal
Branded Economic Lunacy'

PENSIONERS The mouth OF The
bureaucrat waters as he considers
that Staggerer.'
One OF the dangerous symptoms
OF the times is the acclamauon WITH
which economic lunacies' are re-
ceiyed by a large number OF oEr
voters" comments the Stamford
CConnD Advocate. while the "trac:c
hopes" raised by the Townsend pro
posal are deplored by the Davenport
IoWaD Times and the Boise Idaho
Statesman calls its support "one OF
the disconcertlrg signs of the times.
The American Association Of So
cial Security. which calls it lunacy.'
according to the South Bend Tribune,
points out that the estimated S24.-
900 900 .000-a-year turnover IN the
Townsend plan would constitute more
than half of the total national de5t
and exceed seven-fold the normal
budget of the United States Govern
ment. 1t also points out that this
gigantic expenditure would be made
directly 20 only per cent OF the
American people. Other Americans
would have to wait for benefits that
might dribble through to them. The
dribbling would be slowed, the security
association points out. by the COM
plex administrative system that would
be needed if the Federal Government
were 20 pay S2OC to each aged person
every month. The Townsendites have
not given the public thorough
analysis Of the administrative features
Of the plan
President Roosevelt" suggests the
Bismarck IN. Dak) Tribune, "has
aptly remarked that there can be
no security for the individual in the
midst OF general insecurity, and this
is the warning against which all Sc
curity schemes must be asSayed." The
Rock Island Argus. however. expects
some kind OF old-age pension legis-
lation." and the Sacramento tCalif)
Bee nolds tina. some method of max
ing old age more secure should be
carefully studied" ="
Evening star., 1934-12-13

to any less desperately courageous in
dividual would have seemed utterly
vain. He lacked health, money, friends,
training and experience-but he was
determined.
In London a publisher to whom he
applied for employment bluntly told
him: You had better get porter's
knot and carry trunks" Even the
times were against him 1t was the age
when literature had ceased to flourish
under the patronage of the great and
had not yet begun to enjoy the pat
ronaee of the public. But, especially
after he had added to his liabilities
the responsibility OF wife, Johnson
was obliged to find a way out of his
troubles. And the course he found
was that which led through Grub
Street. The monuments he built there
with his pen were Irene" London" "
The Vanity of Human Wishes" The
Rambler" the famous dictionary,
! The Idler, ;" "Rasselas" and the cele-
brsted edition OF Shakespeare. His
Lives Of the Posts" and Journey to
the Hebrides" came near the end
when the struggle was over.
Few, however. of Johnson's admir-
ers in the twentieth century think
Of him as writer 1t is through
! BosWell's representation of him as q
/ talker that they see and love him
He was. certainly. one Of the lords
Of conversation, a prince of spoken
utteranCe
In brief, he is remembered AS per-
sonality, human Soul dearly cher
ished. Fifteen decades have failed tt
erase him from the hearts of multi
tudes. And the secret of his hold
upon affection is, undoubtedly, the
| charity and fellow feeling which Were
bred In him by his own experience.
Evening star., 1934-12-13

To the Editor OF The Star:
l congratulate you on your strong
editorial against the needless sacrifice
OF Washlngton's East Potomac Park.
This area, developed al considerable
expense as a park for the Use OF the
people of the Capital and its many
visitors, is ideally adapted Tor recrea-
ton purposes. On torrid evenings IN
Midsummer. when the rest OF wash
ington is d sWrltering furnace. literally
Thousands of cars crowd the Speedway
around Hams Point carrying men,
women and children drawn by the
promise of cool breezes from the river.
At cherry blossom time the park Is
again crowded with visitors and wash
inetonianS enjoying the beauty OF the
double towered trees. During the
speedboat races the banks Of the
river are lined with spectators en-
loving the thrill of the contests.
These are extraordinary occasions.
but every day the park Is put TO good
Use for various types OF recreation 10
which the park is peculiarly adapted
horseback riding. cycling, roller
Skallng. plcnlckllls anu solllils. iit
four 9-hole golf courses are the most
used Of any courses in metropolitan
Washington. II may not be generally
known, but 1t is the practice OF a
number Of Congressmen 10 play
golf there early mornings during the
Spring, thus getting needed recreation
and exercise even during busy ses-
sions OF Congress. The courses are
used by literally hundreds OF Govern
ment employees and other Washington
lans who otherwise would have TO GO
without recreation. much to the detri-
ment of their physical and mental
health. Last Summer an illuminated
driving course for night driving prae-
tice was installed and Was very pop
ular even for club members VINO
wanted to improve their driving.
The conveniently located and
secluded tourist camp, which makes
visits to Washington possible to hun
dreds of citizens each year, would be
sacrificed Immediately to the projected
airport. and. make no mistake about
It. eventually all of the recreational
facilities of the park would be SINH
larly sacrificed.
Evening star., 1934-12-13
Reciprocity.

President Roosevelt and his Secre-
tary OF State, COrdell Hull, called for
new markets. foreign markets, as the
remedy for Americas. and the worlds,
depression, in speeches read at the
convention Of the American Farm
Bureau Federation IN Nashville, Tenn.
They We're speaking particularly OF
the need for expansion OF the eXpor
tation Of American farm products.
However. stress was laid. too, on the
need for increased markets abroad
for American industry. The Secre-
tary of State has ,labored in season
and out since he became member
of the Presidents cabinet 10 steer the
administration policy toward ireer
markets. The first result of Mr.
Hull's efforts was the passage OF the
so-called reciprocal trade agreements
law. giving the President authority 10
negotiate with foreign nations and to
lower or raise tariff duties in order
10 bring about agreements. The
United States already has entered into
re liproeal trade relations with Cuba,
and similar arrangements are in the
making with a dozen other foreign
nations
The messages read to the conyen-
ton from the President and Mr.. Hal
can only be interpreted as meaning
| that the policy of reciprocal trade
| agreements will be pressed as rapidly
a. possible. There is the implication
that still further step: may be under
taken. 1t has BEEN Mr. Hull's posi-
| ton for long time that the recipro-
cal trade agreements could not COM
pletely fill the bill. but that there
must be a general lowering of the bar
llers erected by the nations against
since they came into control Of the
Government, however have not at
tempted to tinker directly with the
general tariff schedules. Indeed, the
time did not seem ripe for such a
move. Nevertheless, the impression
is gaining ground that if there is to be
real recovery that can take care of
| the powers OF production in this coun-
try, there must be large resumption
Of International commerce.
The President in his telephone
message to the Farm Bureau con-
vention said that increases. proper
increases, in farm income in this
country could not come unless more
of our export trade is paid for by
increased imports. Mr.. Hull said
frankly that if efforts to restore in
irrational trade, through lower
ing Of the barriers. were not eventual
| ly successful, permanent policy of
reg would become neces-
| sare n this country, with a COM
plete. change in our economic system,
permanent increase in memploy-
ment and lowering of the standards
Of living.
II world commerce could be forced
to the high level OF $40 600 900, 900
| annually, instead of the present low
of $4,000 100000, as Mr.. Hull pro-
poses, then, indeed, world depression
and depression in this country would
cease. It seems incredible that the
peoples of the world, including the
United States, will be unable to meet
this problem of restoration of inter
national trade, which seems at once
remedy for present ills and har-
binger of new heights for modern
| civilization.
Evening star., 1934-12-13

Press comment on the Townsend
uld-age pension project shows a gem
eral conviction that the Federal
Treasury could not pay 5000 month
for each person over 90. II Is suS-
sested. however, that Congress may
give attention to the demand Tor some
kind of social security.
"Mr. Roosevelt's own view" says
the Youngstown Vindicator. is that
unemployment insurance should come
first and that pensions for the agt<
should wait until the country can at-
ford them" The Portland Oregonian
points out that "the tax must be
paid out Of income" that mo matter
how hard one tries one cannot fill a
barrel with a gallon of water-a fair
illustration of what Is proposed by
the Townsend plan"
The circumstance that clubs in
various parts of the country have
adopted resolutions approving the
Townsend plan" says the Nashville
Banner. lis merely another proof Of
the fact that in these disturbed times
it is not difficult for any scheme that
has for its central idea the beStoW-
ment of vast benefits or subsidies upon
a class or group of citizens at the pub
lie expense 40 obtain voluble ad-
herents." The Wilkes-Barre tPaD
record observes that 1T is impossible
to reconcile the plan with any reason
able ma the matical consideration" and
that it appeals only from the political
point OF view"
In satricsl vein the Yakima
WASH Daily Republic remarks:
The scheme looks good to us. but
II does not 60 far enough. 1t makes
a man quit work at 90 and devote
himself entirely to spending $500
a month pension, which will be gwen
him and which he must spend within
80 days after he gets 1t. The age
limit should not be 60. it should not
be over l6. Also 1t is wrong to limit
the pension to 5000 month. Gov
ernment statistics show that it costs
man almost S400 month to live
in any kind of comfort at all. and
if one cannot have living pension
he should not be required to accept
any at all. We hope to see the Town
send plan amended SO it will be
worth while"
Ten million Americans over so
pensioned at The rate of $500 a
month";" according to the New York
Sun. would be getting more than
81, ,OOo, 900 900 month, or more than
S24. 600 100000 a year. If this were
raised by a 10 per cent sales tax, as
has peen suggested. it would require
q sales volume OF S240,000 ,000, 900
approximately five times the volume
of retail sales in 1929. a prosperous
year. More fascinating than these
figures. however. are the calculations
enforced by side issue Every re-
cipient of a pension under the Town
send plan would have to spend his
monthly pension in the month in
which 1t was received to get of the
lists. This Is the real problem in
mathematics: How many person:
would it take to check up on the
monthly expenditures Of lO,0O0,OO(