The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 22, 1927, Page 4

NG R SO e s e 3 fTBE M(Yl‘h lN HlS NEIGHBOR'S EYE. Dmly Alaska Em plrc IOHN IN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER the Main Published every e oxcept EMPIRE PRINTING O h at Btrcts, Juneau, Alaska. by and Sunday Second »d in the Post Offi Second Class SUBSCRIPTION R/ Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Thane for $1,25 per month. e pald, at th follow Treadwell and g rates nths, in advance ong. month, 1 Subscribers will confer & fi notify the Business Office of in the delivery of ir papers. Telephone for Editorial and E will promptly r irregulavity MENMBER OF ASS QCH\Thu rFRE3S. < ntitied to the s credited to it or not oth L and also the Jocal news published herein ALASKA CIRCUL THAN TH ATION GUARA OF ANY OTHE TEED TO BE ICATIC ! ECONOMY, TAXES D POIATICS The gone on 000,000, Treasury current taxes years, and a during the next two years. Treasury officials willing schedules which will lower e tax Dbill some $250,000,000, than the amount which the merce believes to he proper. Were the s-tile ment left to the Treasury Department and the Chamber undoubtedly they would reach an ag¥ee ment on reduction that would be based upon known facts and figures, taking into considerat cn sound economics, would insure returns quate for all governmental needs. Treasury officials the total surplus the end of the fiscal year will reach about §6 000,000. President Coolidge, while favoring reduction, for a poli which wouid vide for reducing the outstanding national debt take necessary steps to care for the Mis ppi River flood situation, and then reduce the t rates commensurately with what might remain from the surplus. There is in this program muech that commends itself to business men. Ilmlu:--l tion of the national debt means a ving in interest charges which otherwise must come from taxation. Funds for flood protection must be provided, if not from the surplus then from new taxes. In the last analysis, howeyer, neither President nor the Treasury Department, nor yet the United States Chamber of Commerce will write the new tax bill. That duty rightfully lies in the province of Congress. And members of that body are agreed that the existing levies shall *be reduced. Theye are good gronds for believ- ing, however, that the economics of the situation will not be entirely the cohtrolling factor In the new measure. Vext year is national cam- paigning year, a season in which every question has its political angle. And when it comes to tax reduction politics must and will be served. UTH United State record a It ba it basis of with Chamber tax of Commerce ha rediuction of $400 on the estim $200,000,000 proposal of accumulations urplus from of previou probable continuation SUTP U to approve tax nation's $150,000,000 1 Chamber of Cof and ado- say tax speaks pro- the BANDED BIRDS TRACED TO AMERICA. Birds flying southward, singly or in great flocks, are the proverbial heralds of the approach of cold weather, Where do they go, starting Canada, or New England, or our northern lnk How fast do they travel and what distances do| they cover? The Blological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture has been en- deaforing for some time to collect information on these and other points relating to the habits) of migratory birds by means of its bird-banding operations. Suitable metal bands, or markers, are placed on the legs of captured birds in the re- glons where studies are being made. The birds are then released, and gradually a fair propor- tion of them are recaptured and the bands are returned to the Department for comparison with the original banding records. Surprising distance have been traveled by gome of the birds recovered. Bands are returned not only from States along the Gulf Coast but from Mexico, the West Indies, and even from BSouth America. Among the most recent of such interesting returns were bands from three com- mon terns, banded at Tern Island, near Chatham, Mass., in July, 1926, and recovered from the Island of Trinidad in May and June, 1927 A Casplan tern, banded July 1, 1925, at Gravelly Island, Mich., was retaken on Jume 7, 1927, on e Magdalena River, near Barranquilla, Colom- This makes the fourth banded Caspian tern rted from this same area. Recently Col. Theodore Roosevelt, keynoting the New York State Republican Convention, d his voice in horror at alleged corruption the Democratic State administration and train- his heayiest guns in the direction of Gov. Al nith. With no desire of seeming to be, or of captious from a partisan standpoint, nor twisting political casualties of one party to political advancement of another, the doughty I's attention might well be directed to thej t decision of the Supreme Court in the Tea- Dome leaze annulment guit and to the present of former Secretary Fall on criminal charges ing out of the oil Jeases. ~g.| Roosevelt had no attack to make on Smith personally, but sought to brand him m brush of a Tammony that ceased to ng _years ago. Let him then read the . paragraph from the decision of the t, in comnection with the transfer — ona annval i the | firms the other cir- ated by that he belief, gens cumstances in the c faithless public officer. There is noth- ing in the record that tends to mitigate the sinister significance attaching to that enrichment. Mr. Fall and l|'LnHl|1nn~ with of the was a Mr. Sinclair, the favored les: whom, E. C. Finney, Interior testified, from other prospective tried for criminal of course, innocent until a jury returns of guilty. But the en Teapot Dome been cancelled and well as the Elk lea the Doheney interests, returned Government. Perhaps if young Mr. time As of Navy the same to he has : Secretary were kep secret bidders, are being conspiracy, and ar lease it, as Hill to to would d these aff: Hal vote that afil to detect the real ziven able fancied. ation is w't!n!: a new Me has on woek ngmen, now orenr n on the aear hodied b’ man work s='x days lares that on bel jmith of D troit dee feve that any enforeed long My time. n " he Mayor of Detroit .\ 01 I(I Politic \n‘ inerals ew Timen) n rticle World eign pert that tion lost tation and 8 October number For Affairs, Mr. C. Leith, the well-known ex on the world's mineral resources, suggest the extraordinary increase in the consump of coal, iron and other minerals during th analf century wiil new politieal ar 1oty between present there is 1 of oericy on of government with relation to the cxvlo’‘tation of mineral re somices by thelr nationa The part played by ol in the controversics betwesn the United State ! Mexien case in point roughont the \u,|||| the demand for mneral ine the velstions between nations with large supplic and . these with demands will underge chan<e The an Progr of K prodiace nation At hy the part is a wor'd by minorals in Jittle appreciates the part played civilization. Obvionr a t is that we live in an of steel, it i hard to vsualize the enormous advance in pro duet and consumption of the principal metal: within the last few decades. Professor Leith gives a few of the most salidnt figures. In the last twenty vears the world has exploited more of its resources than in all preceding history. In the United States alone the per capita consump t'on of metals has increased fifteen-fold in the last fifty years. Today the United States orig inates about 40 per cent. of the world's minera production Incidentally, the United States Ir performing about 40 per cent. of the world’ work Herein les one of the most interesting facts of modern civilization. The enormous wealth of the American Continent in the essential bulk .materials has given to the United States the op portunity of leading in the industrial developmen! of the world. It has been estimated that the.unit of production in the United Stafes is.thirty-threc times that of China. In other words, China which still relies almost exclusively on mar power to perform all manner of tasks, is alto gether outdistanced by America, which relies or machines to do much of tha work that was form- erly done by hand. One of the reasons why thi is possible is because the United States has suc! large available deposits of the bulk mineral like coal and iron. Thanks to their distibutio: around the North Atlantic basin, the nation there situated dominate the world today. When the late Brooks Adams developed thirty years ago his theory that there is a direct rela tion between the coutrol of large supplies of metals and the preponderance of world power he was considered an academic speculator. His prophecy that the United States, owing to the development of its coal and 'iron resources, wa destined to become one of the most influentia’ nations in world affairs, was ignored. And yet 2 today that, as Mr. Leith re- minds vs, our preseni prosperity and strength arc due not so much to the fortunes made during the World War as to the rapid development of the enormous natural resources of the country and their utilization in such a manner as tc derive from them the largest possible amount of power. Contrary to popular belief, the distribution of essential minerals is far from uniform. It is this which at the same time ‘gives preponder ance to those nations having large supplies n( coal and iron and intensifies the demand for other metals. Unfortunately, international fric- tion has resulted despitq the fact that the ever- growing demand for minerals has greatly in- creased commerce, and so has been one of the forces binding closer together the commercial in- terests of the world. Alaska Grain in the Orient. (Seward Gateway.) Shipments of flour from Puget Sound to ports in Japan and China often reach 25,000 barrels per week, and are steadily Increasing. The 66,000,000 people of Japan and the 400,- 000,000 people of China are daily taking on the bread eating habit, in place of rice. They must import the bulk of their. bread grain since all their tillable soil is utilized to the limit to support the present overpopulation. The western shelf .of the Kenai Peninsula, the Susitna Valley, and the Tanana Valley to- gether could produce annually 125,000,000 bush- els of rye and other grains, most of which would find a market in the Orfent long before that quantity of production could be reached. These valleys in Central Alaska are 1400 miles nearer the Orient tham the grain fields of Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon, and the port of Seward is 1,000 miles nearer the ports of Japan and China than any port of the Pacific Coast. Shipments of Alaska grain in consequence would have an advantage In freight rates over shipments from Oregon and Washington. Besides, grain produced in those States is even now mostly required for home consumption, and soon all of it will be, The management of the Alaska Railroad could open a field of large and almost limitless possi- bilities by systematically taking up and encoura ing a policy of settling and developing the agr! cultural lands in its tributary territory for the production of rye and other kinds of grain that} thrive in these latitudes, It could start by arranging for a first shipment of 3,000 tons of yur modern remaing 80,000 worth of Liberty Bonds from Fall: Matanuska, the Susitna and the Tanana Vall in co-operation with farmers already establis there. That industry, npu _started, wwld pand amazingly, " a verdiet has record | ALONG LIFE'S ! DETOUR By SAM HILL Assis l|n! | R Doubted It (Boston Transcript) Gray—They say a man's firs thous: get. | Green ily enough. Hard Luck (Detroit Now.) Liz Binks is most unhappy About the turn of fate | That made her finest chancos Come round to her too late There Wh n were no h» eanty prizc younsg and wild them, now she dees g Che w have tiled ty win But al Cinemas program: A Wite.,” Lucky Devil.” Cur Cyn m a mo Lost I'he Be Kind to the Vegetables (Bufia'o Courier and Express) convin f hive nerve (I am tamato, flushed ant corn the ity eye meek potato— bu'ge from i [ Fate's caprices top and thinl have gone t awful enrse O the of drink! Tho Candid Advertiser SILK DRESSES it §7.95 SUAL $5.00 Charleston THE 1 Ad in Courier. VALUES News and Nize T-mc Al (Jacksonville “Have a lively ‘I should say Got into a farmer's house and he stung me; ot intoe a hornet’s nest and it stung me teo. Around "imes-Union) time on your va- Revived We geem to be hav- deal of rain now Employer- ing a great adays, John, Gardner—Yes, sir, they clouds doan’t seem to ‘old th' watter same as they usid to, sure-lye. 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