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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-04-21
BUILDING PERMITS

Ordinance Number 229 now being
in effect, notice is hereby given
that building permits must be OBJ
tanned at the City Engineers office
b fore starting any construction
work, excepting for repairs. Plumb
ing, electric wiring work and oil
burner installations are included.
M. A .LAGERGREN,
adv. City Engineer.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
MAYME EVERSOLE
DIES SUDDENLY

Wayne Fverso,e, pioneer resident
of Alaska, and formerly City Clerk
and Treasurer of Ketchikan, died
in the First City last Saturday
afternoon as a result of pneumonia
She had been i'll only three days.
Miss Eversole, in the early days
of way, was practically in
charge of the old Sylvester Wharf
and Sylvester Commercial Com
pany She had been a resident of
Ketchikan for the past rs years or
more.
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FULL HOUSE

"You car get FULL HOUSE
for a dollar Oh less and It's a
Winner Ask your liquor dealer"
adv.
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AT ST. AIMS

William Steinbeck has been adj
mitted to st. AIMS Hospital for
medical treatment.
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u. S DEPARTMENT Or AGRICULTURE. WEATHER BUREAU
THE WEATHER
fBy the u. s. Weather Burea

Juneau and vicinity beginning at April FL
Wednesday, cooler tonight
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WEATHER SYNOPSIS

low this morning over the Aleu-
ans the west coast States ana
the field OF observation nlgh
barometric distribution has
been attended generally throughout Alaska
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SHOP IN JUNEAU. FIRST.
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WEATHER CONDITIONS AT s A. M

etchikan cloudy AS cloudy 49, Stka cloudy
Radove
Skagway cloudy
Cahv a. Fairbanks 50 Nenana,
Nuato 49, Kaltag clear 49, Unal
akleet, 80
The Washington times., 1936-10-20
Diphtheria Prevention

When science makes possible prevent disease and when
the of prevention placed at the disposal of all it
absurd that suffering and death from the illness should
continue
Yet that the situation in regard dphthera and explains
why District health authorities had campaign
to have children immunized against it.
THE nMUNIZATION TREATMENT IS SIMPLE AND
EFFECTIVE NEVERTHELESS IN THE LAST YEAR THERE
HAVE BEEN 700 DIPHTHER1A CASES WITH % DEATHS
IN THE DISTRICT.
The mortality from the disease in the District higher
than the general rate for the country.
STILL Dr. George G. Rutland health officer says in start
ing the mmunizaon campaign every of these pre-
ventabe
Parents of all children in the District should enlist in Dr.
Ruhland's campaign
they afford physician administer the
privately there many clinics which will be given
free.
IF YOUR CHILD HAS NOT RECEIVED THE TREATMENT
CALL THE HEALTH OFFICE AND FIND OUT WHERE AND
WHEN SUCH TREATMENT CAN MOST CONVENIENTLY
BE GIVEN
The Washington times., 1936-10-20
Alley Dwellings

The dedication today of the lowrent housing project
of the Alley Dwelling Authority in London Court South
east marks progress toward objective long sought
by Washington-the elimination of alley slum dwellings.
LONG CONDEMNED BY PUBLIC OPINION THESE
ALLEY DWELLINGS WHICH sPRANG INTO USE
DURING AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE CIVI
WAR HAVE FOR MANY YEARS BEEN RECOGNIZ
ED AS CONSTITUTING ONE OF THE MOST Sc
RIoUs SOCIAL PROBLEMS CONFRONTING THE
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Numerous schemes have been advanced for their elim
nation but all Of them have SUCCESSFULLY begged down
either for want of money for want of cooperative
action.
Public health officials and law enforcement authorities
have begged in vain that something be done to remedy
conditions which they have attributed to alley conditions
Within the last two years their peadings have borne
fruit.
The Alley Dwelling Authority has been constituted to
cope with the problem.
It is advancing to the attack along many lines.
With some phases of the Authortys activities there
is disagreement that is only natural in view Of the
rietv of interests affected.
BUT WITH THE GENERAL WORK OF THE AU-
THORITY AND WITH ITS ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE
THERE IS NO QUARREL.
The people of Washington know what the alleys have
cost them in public health and in public order.
They 1Uant those lUhO haze sought alley Dwellings
because the rent is cheap to have opportunity tC
find better conditioned and better situated home
that are Uithin the reach of their limited incomes
At the same time they want the alley property thus
vacated be put proper uses which will return
an income to the owners and at the time return
an economic benefit to city which needs to utilize all
of its property.
That in essence is what the Alley Dwelling Authori-
IT, under the direction of Executive Officer John Ihder
is seeking
The project dedicated today marks progress toward
the goal.
The Washington times., 1936-10-20

Ing up IIle luGd Gu"H S' "A
that the half-pint gunman is the
more dangerous. The smaller the
package, the more poisonous the
contents. Here are these three
Indiana bantamweight hoodlums,
who had promised to put Dillin-
ger in the shade" beating up the
sheriff at Greenfield with an iron
bar they had worked loose and
making their getaway.
There seems to be murderous
desperation in many understood
outlaws missing in the heftier
thugs.
"TWo-Gun" Crowley, around
whom that savage gun battle ragged
in New York apartment house
several years ago, and who later
was electrocuted, was a ratty, flat
chested little gangster who never
had been big enough or strong
enough to defend himself with his
fists in Slum gang fights.
One Of his childhood mates said
that even when he was in short
pants he was dangerous, always
ready to bash a rival with a rock
If he couldn't have his way. Be
fore he was out of his teens, he
was packing a gun.
EXAMPLES
There was Machine Gun Jack"
McGurn, of Chicago warped,
stunted little man who sprayed
bullets around with no more con-
Germ than if they were gumdrops.
Ferret-eyed, snarling, snag-toothed,
he was as deadly as cobra, the
embodiment of hate.
There was Fernekes, that Pearl
River bank bandit, no bigger than
a small Jockey, who messed up
half a dozen States with his gun
play.
Vincent Coll, accommodatingly
knocked off by fellow thugs in a
New York drug store two years
ago, was a frail weakling who
couldn't go two fast rounds with
a katydid.
From 1881 to 1888. England had
a crime wave, something most un-
usual over there. 1t started with
the "smash-and-grab' rackets, in
which a small gang would break
a plate glass window, loot the
store and run. 1t finally spread
to more daring forays and hold
ups, in which citizens and police
men were beaten or killed.
The newspapers were puzzled
by the fact that so many of this
new crop of criminals were under
sized men
During the same period, the
police were rounding up the
ancient and notorious Caviglioli
gang in Corsica. Again, many of
those caught in the net were men
scarcely over five feet tall. Fan
The Washington times., 1936-10-20

campaign.
Those who remember Mr.. Gar
ner when he was in the House
know that in a rough-and-tumble
debate he was right there. In
fact, many a member of the House,
who served with him and thought
they could get by the white hair
and buShy eyebrows with a couple
of fast ones, learned to their Sor-
row that when he planted his feet
solidly on the roStrum and took a
stand it was a darn hard job to
dislodge him.
The story leaked up from Texas
that when the Vice President re-
ceived the call several weeks ago
to stop fishing and come up to
New York to help out at the Bit
more he was given a dinner by
a group of influential citiznes.
On his right sat the president OF
the largest bank in the State and
on his left sat the president of
the next largest bank.
Cactus" Jack got to his feet.
He took a look around and, point
ing his finger to the man on his
right, said:
Look back at the assets your
bank had in 1882. Now look at
them. What the hell are you
afraid off"
Regardless of whether the
quotas given me are 100 per cent
accurate, the idea prevails. The
Vice-President is the type of cam
paigner like Governor Landon.
He gets in his most telling blows
when he's talking man to man.
He's been in New York doing
the same thing with the Stare
bosses and the visitors to the
Democratic camp who are in need
of Observation-Disclosures lee
lures.
The reason he hasn't made
many speeches via the radio, al
though he seems scheduled for
others, is the fact, so I'm told.
that he doesn't like invisible audi
ences. He wants to look his vic
time straight in the face and let
him have it.
And no one is pulling the wool
over his eyes. He knows what the
suave Easterns think about him.
In 1888 when they drafted him to
come to New York for the same
kind of work he told reporters on
the way up there that:
"They think I've got hOnOrS."
The Washington times., 1936-10-20
Three-Minute Journeys

|The road runs through lovely
green valley between the peaks,
as it brings the traveller to Antigua
where the car rattles noisily
through the ancient cobbled streets
that once echoed to the tread
of captains-general, of bishops,
grandees and caballeros. For two
centuries Antigua dominated all
that lay between the cities of Mex
leo and Panama, which meant
much wealth and power.
FERTILE VALLEYS
Colonizers from old Spain
waxed rich in the fertile valleys
around the thriving city until
the year 1773, when the little
world set in the corner of New
Spain, was destroyed by earth
quake and action of the two vol
canoes that were once thought
to be its guardians.
It was never again reestab-
liShed as its country's capital
city, but through the years a
busy, thriving little town has
come to life, flourishing within
the shell of the great dead city.
And visitors, historians, archie
ologiSts stroll through the old
streets as they strive to depict
Antiques past.
Everywhere are enchanting
gardens. In the hotel gardens
one dimes within an exquisite
setting while one listens to the
marimba band and owls sit
Stolidly surveying the picture.
The beautiful buildings are most
of them in ruins, but usually
there is enough left so that one
may reconstruct the whole pic
ture.
The Royal and Pontifical Univer-
Sity of San Carlos, founded in
1920, shows glorious arches of
Granada architecture, delicate
tracery against an azure sky.
Then there is the Convent of
the CapuchinS with it's gardens
and the Royal Mint guarded by
stone lions of CASTLE.
The Washington times., 1936-10-20
TOday's BOOndOggle

TO Judge from the records file the WPA offices here the
people of Stevens county, Oklahoma sore in need of the
lake that the WPA is building for them.
Admittedly the lake is designed in large measure to provide
ecreationa facilities the people of the county, but in add
WPA insists that this project is vitality
conservation and flood control and an emer
gency water supply for the city of Duncan.
So necessary the lake. in the opinion of the WPA that
engaged in spending $691 of the reasury borrowings
erect the will flood $50 depth
of 10 feet.
To Judge from the sponsors contribution this project how
the necessity for the creation of this lake existed only
the minds the WPA officials The people of Stevens county
took the $69 with great pleasure but they contributed not
red of their toward the cost of this vital work.
h New
The Washington times., 1936-10-20
GUATEMALA

Guatemala is fast becoming
one of the most important points
for travellers to Central and
South America.
This lovely Central American
republic has so much to offer,
and since it is so accessible by
palatial steamers, with the voy-
age itself part of a glorious holi-
day, it isn't surprising to come
across old friends in the hotel
lobby in Guatemala City or in
Antigua, that lovely old city
that is beautiful even in desola-
ton and ruin. Some enthusiasts
return again and again to Qua
temala and Antigua, for this
country does exert almost a mag
ical influence on those who are
receptive to beauty and mystery.
And who isn't?
RAIL AND AUTO
The journey to Antigua COM
with the rail trip from San
Jose, the port of debarkation, to
Palm, famous for its markets.
The next part of the trip is
made by auto, with the car climb
ing a road by the side of a tower
ing volcano to another road
which runs through scenery that
is we'll nigh incredible in it's
beauty. Sometimes the road will
dip through tunnels rooted with
masses of blazing purple orchids,
then on past coffee and banana
plantations in exquisite settings.
Along the plateau country Of
Santa Maria there are fabulously
old churches and other buildings
and one has the feeling that time
has forgotten this part of the
world. Grave Indians turn out
pottery of the same type used b.
Alvarado, four centuries ago. The
whole effect is eerie, a splendid
prelude to Antigua.
The whole landscape is dom
mated by the twin volcano peaks,
Aqua and Fuego-water and fire.
The Washington times., 1936-10-20

evidence of a decentralization as
that which Redeemed Moscow and
Madrid.
You don'l believe it, of course,
everything looks the same as it
always has. Here are the same
golden fields. busy factories, high
ways jostling with traffic, proud
cities shining in the sun.
There is, to be sure, a little labor
trouble, but nobody has bombed
the Capitol. And the machine
guns aren't barking in Times
Square. Isn't that proof that the
fear of revolution is absurd?
It is not. Revolutions are not
made or demonstrated by bullets
and blood, but by IDEAS. Just as
a country is built upon ideas, so
it can be destroyed by ideas. A
nation-any nation-is simply AN
IDEA. upheld by millions of people
who believe in that idea, love and
teach it, are willing to fight for it.
HOW 1T STARTED
AS long as those millions of men
and women continue to be faithful
to that IDEA their nation endures.
But when they lose faith in it.,
ignore or Taught at it, disobey and
disregard it, their nation falls
though it's fields are still golden
with harvest and its cities still
shine in the sun.
Revolution doesn't start with
gun fire. It starts with doubt and
The Washington times., 1936-10-20

I'm going to
do it because
someone h a S
tipped me off
to a logical
theory of why
the Vice Presi-
dent has kept
q u i e t. TIL S
theory com e S
right from the
feed box and
also seems to
diSpel the popu-
lar opini on
that the Texan
isn't doing any
thing in this
The Washington times., 1936-10-20
Human Side of theNeWs
BIZ EdLUin C.. Hill
Many of the Toughest Gunner Have Been
Understood Weaklings
BIZ EdWin C.. Hill

'gara, President Roosevelt's assail.
ant in Florida, who killed Mayor
Cermak Of Chicago, was a tiny
man and a weakling.
This run of lightweight killers
is cited here, Of course, as of inter
est entirely in the field Of
abnormal or congenital Grim.
inality.
In the arts and craftsmanship,
one could recruit legion Of in.
telligent and creative men, from
Alexander Pope to Napoleon and
on down to La Toilette, who hap
pened to be small men.
In normal behavior, size doesn't
seem to count. You may find a
frail and sickly Shelley or physi.
cally and intellectually magnifi.
cent Goethe.
I have heard psychologists ex.
plain the homicidal proclivities
of the small criminal. Many psy.
Geological findings seem a bit far
fetched to me, and I am inclined
to keep my fingers crossed when
I hear these pat explanations
about compromising" and the
like.
But it does seem reasonable
that an understood boy, tainted
with criminality, will piece him.
self out with rock or club when
he is small and gun when he
gets bigger.
1t is understandable, Of course,
that in a thwarted, twisted mind.
physical inadequacy coupled with
an environment of violence, will
turn to hatred. utilizing any
means at hand to get on even
terms.
SEVERAL THEORIES
Racketeers, of course, as dis,
tinguiShed from bank and train
robbers and journeymen gunner.
run as much to bulk as law-abid-
ing citizens. One could cite Al
Capone and quite string of other
sizeable masters of eXtortion who
organize villainies, and perhaps
hire killers. But they rarely mix
in the shooting matches.
Anthropologists, particularly
those of the Harvard faculty.
have done much research on the
relation of normal stature to nor
NAL behavior.
My impression is that they find
no direct causal link between
dwarfed stature and criminal tend
encies, but they suggest that
latent abnormal tendencies may
be furthered by the defeat and
Illustration resulting from small,
frail body.
Just in passing, there is quite
a group of up-to-date anthropol-
ogists who seem to be working
back to the school of Lombroso
and Ferreri-that is, the school
of definite physical crime stigmata
which. when we know enough.
will enable us to pick out and
classify a criminal almost at
glance.
There is rapidly building UP a
whole new library on endocrine
glands, physical characteristics
and criminal tendencies. In
Vienna particularly, they are do
ing some fascinating research in
this field.
That, of course, is all to the
good, but, in the meantime, we
have been making some progress
in the techniques of catching, as
we'll as understanding criminals
and that's important, too.
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
syndicate. Inc
The Washington times., 1936-10-20

have such hor-
rors in America
as they're hay
ing in Spain"
Sorry to
shatter your
rosy d re a m 5,
lady, but revo-
luton is no t
only coming to
America 1T
HAS COM E.
A n d ally
you're S e elm z
The Washington times., 1936-10-20
Words of Wise Men

Enjoy your present pleasures so
as not to injure those that follow.
Seneca.
He hurts the good who spares
the bad.-Syrus.
To know the pains of power, we
must go to those who have it; to
know its pleasures, we must go to
The Washington times., 1936-10-20

men. 1 have
heard AL Jen-
nings, after he
quit being a
train robber, Of
fer the same
advice to all
and sundry, and
AL knew a lot
about it. He
was both one
of the toughest
and one of the
runtieSt of ban
dts.
T h e n e W S
keeps on back
49, ;Ioa
The Washington times., 1936-10-20
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
THE REVOLUTION is HERE

>contempt, envy. resentment, sneerS
and self-pity. When these things
start in the minds of any people
REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN.
These things have started in
the minds of Americans. You can
see their deadly work in the faces
of hundreds, daily. In the terri
fled eyes of the old, which once
held peace. in the bitter eyes of
the young, which once held
dreams. in the worried eyes of
the homemakers, which once held
serenity. . in the angry eyes Of
the workers. which once held
pride. in the contemptuouS, ex-
ultant eyes OF parasites, @no
would once have been booted from
our midst. YOU CAN READ THE
RECORD OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION.
Today, the America which our
fathers and we, in our own youth,
knew and loved, no longer exists.
Nor can anything bring it back.
It was a simple IDEA-that
shining. young ideal upon which
America was built-but inspired
with a noble boldness and rooted
in all that is finest in the human
heart. An IDEA of FREEDOM
coupled with RESPONSIBILITY.
A nation not of ruled masses but
of conSecrated individuals.
There had never been anything
like that idea before in history.
There had never been anything
like America before! And as long
as we held to that IDEA, we we're
invincible!
OUR RESPONSIBILITY
But those first, lean, hard days
passed. We were no longer pio-
neerS, wrestling our homes from a
lonely wilderness. We became a
rich, safe people, possessed of in
credible comfort and power. And
the word ran round the world
Go to America" America is easy
pickings! America will let you in,
for Americans are also saps!
So, they came to America.
From every gutter and dung
heap, every alley and pest spot
in the old world they came
the weakllngs and MASTERS, the
parasites, the peevers-and they
brought with them their IDEAS.
Vicious old ideas, poisonous with
envy hate and Sneering con-
tempt.
And we let them in! Vicious
weaklings and vicious ideaS-we
let them all in! Fed them, pro-
'tected and housed them! And
what have they done to US in
return?
They have taught us to smear
at those things we once held
sacred to despise those
things we once held proud. We
the children of men who died to
honor America now Squabble
over whether we should be ex-
pected to salute its flag!
We, the inheritors of the
bravest and most beautiful idea
that ever inspired a people, now
let that IDEA be spit upon by
any babbler or Sorehead, alien
agitator or native Smartie!
REVOLUTION HAS COME TO
AMERICA. And you and I, by
our complacent stupidity, our
spineless sentimentality, our ar
rogant treachery, are responsible.
Copyright, 1898. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1936-10-20

'those who are seeking it; the pains
of power are real, its pleasures
imaginary.-C. c. Cotton.
The winds and the waves are
always on the side of the ablest
navigatorS.-Gibbon.
Where there is much light. the
shadows are deepest.-Goethe.
The Washington times., 1936-10-20
CHOICE SITES

Optimism being what it is and
the fact that to win out in the
primary in some states means vir-
tual election, there has been stir
ring around the Capitol these days
for choice office space.
Of course, under the rules of the
House the space is dished out first
to those having the longest service
and once a Representative gets a
room he can keep it as long as he
remains a member. This applies,
of course, to all cases except COM
mittee rooms. When a man is
made chairman of a committee he
gets the committee office right
away.
Although the present Congress
still holds title to its rooms, several
of the aforementioned gents have
been to Washington to pick over
the offices that are going to be
vacant in hopes they will get a
real nice one.
One Southern candidate for the
House of Representatives has al
ready put in his bid for the office
formerly occupied by the late
Marion A. Zioncheck of Washing
ton.
The Washington times., 1936-10-20
THE CLINCHER

Another Texan, Representative
Luther A. Johnson, stopped in
washington recently to quote q
Republican in support Of his hopes
The Washington times., 1936-10-20
The Greatest Show On Earth
By Frank Miller Smith

~that the Democrats will win in
November.
! He bases his prediction on the
oft repeated declaration Of Mark
Hanna that a President can't be
beat for reelection as long as
wheat sells for 81 a bushel.
Some of these fellows grab at
anything.
The Washington times., 1936-10-20

Thinking are with comparing the present age
with which Immediately preceded the collapse Of the Roman
Empire.
The result was what is known Dark Ages through
which only the spark of religion shone.
But before the dark the twilight and the past that
civilization falls only after despotc power has destroyed first
the individual, the state absorbing all
So long remain FREE civilization cannot again be
plunged into the abyss of barbarism.
The Washington times., 1936-10-20

"It's too disgusting!" snorts she.%
"AIl these warnings about revolu-
ton. AS if it were possible to
The Washington times., 1936-10-20

Any veteran policeman will tell
you to look out for the runt if
you're going to mix up with bad
The Washington times., 1936-10-20
VIGOROUS STYLE

I'm going to sit right down and
write myself a piece about Jack
Garner,
The Washington times., 1936-10-20
THAT'S DIFFERENT

Old campalgners who spend
most of their time in the public
eye battling hard and furious for
their ideals usually are so sur
prised when someone stands right
up to them and delivers a eulogy
that they can't take it.
For instance, there was the
Lynchburg SeSquicentennial cele-
bration. Colonel Edwin A. Halsey,
secretary of the Senate, was asked
to present Senator Carter Glass
with the first issue of a 50-cent
piece carrying the Senator's pro-
file.
Colonel Halsey's presentation
address was short but it was to
the point. So much to the point
that when Senator Glass re-
sponded his emotions got the bet
ter of him. He had to stop to get
the catch out of his voice and the
water out of his eyes.
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and Self-pity. When these things
start in the minds of any people
HAS BEGUN.