The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1930, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - LPIiji'ANIJ’MTNAéfi the Main ept Sunday at Second an Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Ci matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. r in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and month. following rates: ; six months, In advanoce, $1.25 vor if they will promptly ness Office of any failuré or irregularity their papers. Business Offices ATED PRESS. y entitled to the atches credited to this paper and also the e Zubscribers aotify the Bu in the deliver it or not local news published herei ATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ANY OTHER PUBLICATION ALASKA CIRCL | the most significant events in the history of Alaska |Black FOREIGN TRADE IN 1929. The year 1929 was a record breaker in our foreign many years supplied timber for the construction of | trade, both exports and imports showing an increase her vessels on its shores. The district here has been |car over the preceding year, and reaching totals which, when adjustment is made for changes in the buying power of money, decidedly surpass any attained even during the war and the immediate post-war boom, according to a New Year statement given out by the Department of Commerce. This grati- fying result was not brought about by any temporary causes. It marks the continuance of movement practically unbroken since 1921 and 1922 This move- ment reflects the steadily growing efficiency of American industry in production and of American merchants in pushing sales. It also indicates the high and advancing buying power of the people with the consequent increasing demand for those raw materials and foodstuffs, many of a luxury or sem) luxury character, which our country is unable to produce at all, or only in insufficient quantities. Just how much the foreign trade of 1920 sur- passed that of the year before is not known at this writing. If December shows the same figures as that month did in 1928, our total exports will amount to about $5300,000,000, or between 3 and 4 per cent. more than during the preceding year, and our imports to about $4,450,000,000, an increase of 8 per cent. Imports have increased more than exports, there- fore, the balance of comomdity trade in favor of the United States was somewhat less than in 1928 It was still very large, however, somewhere between $800,000,000 and $900,000,000 in value The gain in export trade for 1929 was confined, in the main, to the first four months of the year, during which our foreign sales were nearly $300,000,- 000 greater than in the corresponding months of 1928. The remaining eight months showed either less increase or an actual decrease as compared with 1928. As in most recent years the most conspicuous feature of the trade of 1929 was the expansion in the exports of the products of our factories. For the year as a whole, the foreign sales of semi- manufactured and finished manufactures, (the lat- ter by far the larger group) were in the neighbor- hood of $2,250,000,000. This means a gain of ap- proximately $300,000,000 or 10 per cent. over 1928. Year by year American manufactures have been growing in popularity in foreign markets. The United States now leads the world as an exporter of factory products. Finished manufactures, which before the war represented only about three-tenths of our exports, are now half of the much larger total. The importance of this huge exportation of manufactured goods as a stabilizer of innustry and employment is obviously very great. It is as yet too soon to make a precise state- ment as to the change in the geographic distribu- tion of our trade in 1929 as compared with the pre- ceding year. Figures for 10 months show an in- crease in the value of exports to all six of the continents, with the highest percentage of gain in' shipments to South America. Sales to our northern a North America, Oceania and Afr than our imports from those continents, while the balance of trade was greatly against this country | in the commerce with Asia and against it to a very considerable in the commerce with S(mv.h‘ America considered as a whole. a were greater | amount Bill Vare, rejeeted as a member by the Senate, declares that he will be a candidate for United States Senator against Joe Grundy, whom the Sen-| accepted. Pennsylvania will know something about the next Republican primary election. It will permitted to go default. That of if Bill and Joe retain their health. |ate not be by is, course, With the temperature averaging from 38 to 42 will be difficult to make some people believe that San FPrancisco are suffering much |from that cold However, heat and cold y relative, the extremes, no matter how mild they might & in any country are disagree- able to those who live there. denizens wave and he, e that the Russian expert and the s-Miner, both of whom think Eielson | Let us hc Fairbanks Ne and Borland are safe, may prove to be competent ™" Jjudges. Historical Fac A Seward Asset. (seward Gateway.) One of the most interesting sections of Alaska is Seward and Resurrection Bay—not only scenically and commercially but historically as well. Some of Resurrection Bay has | occurred within its confines. borne on its bosom the naval fleet of powerful Rus sia when that nation ruled the destiny of the Ter-| ritory and the primeval forests surrounding it for | the scene of many bitter conflicts between native Indians and whites and foreign invaders. Not only was it the center of commercial activity but the | location provided facilities for Russian prison camps, ! fortifications, ete. | If we were called upon to suggest ways and means of perpetuating the facts and circumstances that have gone on before in the history of Seward and Resurrection Sound, we would advocate the | erection of an appropriate board, panel or tablet and conveniently placed at the entrance of the Seward dock setting forth in properly worded sign, elee- | trically lighted, to acquaint the traveler by day or night with a historical sketch of early Indian and Russian occupation of the vicinity and other worthy facts. A careful perusal of these old records should disclose many interesting incidents which occurred in the shrouded past, now veiled by time and rele- gated to the limbo for forgotten things. How many strangers and travelers from the States, or, for that matter, in Alaska itself, know and appreclate ever the simplest and greatest of past and recent facts about this wonderful locality? This suggestion is nos originai—an untried idea— for at highway and city entrances in many hun- dreds of towns and cities scattered throughout the United States the traveler confronts this sort of advertising. Any one who has been Outside in re- cent years surely recalls viewing large bill-boards upon which was depicted a large open book on which leaves were enscribed facts relating to the area about to be entered. Our historical events are Let's “cash in” on them! a tremendous asset. A Non-Conforming Protectionist. (New York World.) Pennsylvania has one Republican Representative who does not accept the tariff gospel as it is preached by its two Senators, Messrs. Reed and | Grundy. This non-conformist is James M. Beck, & former Solicitor General of the United States and a constitutional lawyer of repute. According | to Mr. Beck, the flexible provisions of the present | Tariff Bill are bad enough, but those of the Haw- | ley bill are “an absolute surrender of a basic prin- | ciple of Anglo-Saxon liberty.” The present law empowers the President to change the duties only after an advisory commission has investigated pro- duction costs her eand in the chief competing country and has reported that the existing rates does not equalize that cost. The new bill elim- inates this restriction and is so loosely worded that the President may raise or lower duties by 50 per cent. whenever he sees fit, and there can be no appeal from his decision. Give a President that power, says Mr. Beck, and he has a big stick which he can hold over every industry in the country, and it will be impossible to defeat him for qffice. Of course, if he were a high-tariff President, Pennsylvania might have no cause to worry. But sometimes we elect low-tariff Presidents. What one of these might do with a super-flexible tariff is worth considering. Old Guards and Young Guards at ‘Washington | seem to have been no more successful in making are ( |see over PROFESSIONAL ¥ | PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Regv, Medical Gymnastics. 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 | | | Helene W.L. Albrecht | THE GREAT WALL Graham Bonner s 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. I've turned the time back ever PHONE 56 and ¢ o far this evening,” saiq|| Hours 9 a.m. to 8 p. m. — 8 | DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | the I Clock, “and we're goin E 'y wonderful sight.” | % = = > had changed. The! | Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Little Black Clock had turned the b centuries and centuries | Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building nd Peggy were in China irning the time ahead Telephone 176 &1 now all the time,” said the | clock, “so you can great, great wonder.” eggy witched the most | | work they had ever seen | s the Great Wall of China | ou're seeing as it is being d the Little Black Clock going to travel along Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 569, Res. Phone 276 | it i made.” Jc nd Peggy were sure this wa greatest trip the Little Clock had ever taken. T aw the wall being startec it stretch from the sea mountains until it came desert. They saw forts made, and they saw men Dr. H. Vance | Osteopath—201 Goldetein Bldg. | | Hours: 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 7 to § | or by appointmeit | | Licensed Osteopathic Physician | | | and over to rea Phone: Office 1871, Residence, MacKinnon Apts. r the most difficult looking | :: | material and building the | F———————————={} AUTOS FOR HIRE ‘ Gastineau Channel —— | Fraternal Societies 7 orF | —a Carlson’s Taxi Vleeting every Wed- (i nesday at 8 o’clock. Elks’ Hall. brothers welcome. B. P. 0. ELES ty Visiting WINN GODDARD, Exalted Rules Anywhere in the City for 50c Careful, Efficient Drivers Call Us At Any Hour Ju DAY AND NIGHT w. Meets every Monday aight, at 8 o'clock. M. H. SIDES, Secretary. @==] Co-Ordinate Bof- 4 . les of Freemasorn ry Scottish Rite Regular meetinge second Friday each month e 7:30 p. m. Socot- tish Rite Temple WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary. IOYAL ORDER OF MOOSZ neau Lodge No. 700. 3 5% JAMES CARLSON, Dictator. T. VALE, Secy, P. O. Box 02( Phones II and Single O Stand at Alaskan Hotel CARLSON’S TAXI AND SERVICE AMBULANCE MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 141 X \v Master; Secretary. 'ORDER OF EASTERN STAR Second and Fourth Second and Fourth Mon- day of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at ":30 p. m WALTER P. S€QTI CHARLI3 E. NAGHEL Tuesdys of each month, at places And, as the Little Black Clock | turned the time ahead so they could | | the work being continued, they | | a mighty wall that stretched || a distance so great that the|) Little Black Clock said that if it were at home it would reach over three-quarters of John's and Peg- gy's country, and further than that | if ightened out. Dr. Geo. L. Barton CHIROPRACTOR Hellenthal Building OFFICE SERVICE ONLY Hours: 10 a. m. to 12 noon 2p m to5p m 6 p. m to8p m By Appointment PHONE; 259 wall rambled everywhere. =1 —5 ! | | aw thousands of water tow-|is they saw the wall being built mountains, winding through valleys until the wall looked like a great dragon. It was very wide and high. “In the olden days they built this to keep out their enemies,” ex- plained the Little Black Clock, “but j ¥ Robert Simpson Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology over | | r { | Glasses Fitted, Lenses Grouna when there was no further need of | . it they stopped building it.” DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL But John and Peggy never forgot | Optometrist-Optician that they had seen the Great Wall | | Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted of China being built and had seen || Room 16, Valentine Bldg. the workers continue it anywhere| | 10:00 to 6:00. Evenings by no matter if a huge mountain was| | APpointment. Phone 484 in the way or not! 1 ' | JOHN B. MARSHAL THE CAPITAL 1 ¥ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW L CLEANERS || 420 Goldstein Building PHONE 483 Bureau of Information Bldg., Lower Front St. i —— | Cleaning, Pressing, Repair Work, Pleating }| UFTOWN AGENCY | BRITT'S PHARMACY Work Called For and Delivered, Phone 371 HARRIS Hardware Co. LOWER FRONT ST. ROOFING PAPER Juneau Public Library Free Reading Room City Hall, Second Floor Main Street and Fourth o Reading Room Open From 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. Circulation Room Open from 1 to 5:30 p. m~—T7:00 to 8:30 p. m. Current Magazines, Newspapers, Reference, Books, Ete. FREE TO ALL | CAPITAL LAUNDRY Under New Management SILKS and LACES a Specialty DRY CLEANING AND PRESSING We call for and deliver PHONE 355 T. E. HALL, Manager Hardware j , ot ) neighbor, Canada, increased very greatly. Those to themselves intelligible than the guards on the sub- | JIlli Cuba and Mexico showed a substantial increase dur- ing 1929 as against declines ip several earlier years. Imports from all the continents were also greater' in 1929 than' the year before, and ihere was no very conspicuous difference in the relative percent- ages of gain. As usual, our exports to Europe, MEN’S MEN’S BOYS’ RED STORM KING BOOTS, GOODRICH KINGFISHER YOUTHS* RED STORM KING BOOTS, size 12 to 2 ... 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