The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 12, 1930, Page 4

Daily Alaska Emplre JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGEB chief of the Eastern District for the Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration, The Federal food and _, |drugs act is strict in requiring that labels shall no! |mislead consumers as to the quantity, quality, or constituents of foods and drugs sold in containers | Consequently, a purchaser who reads the label care- fully and intelligently can make sure that he or— e |as most frequently happens—she is getting what she thinks she is paying for. Published _every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, eau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Clas: matter. 4 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month, By muall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, sne month, in advanc A notlly the B in the delive o Telephone for MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEC P The Associated Press 1s exclusively use for republication of all news dispatches credited to their par litorial und Business Offices, 374. it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the | local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. TIMELY ADVICE IS GIVEN. In an adjoining column of The Empire there appears an editorial article from the F: anks News-Miner on the relationship between Alaska’s coastal and interior sections, the interest the latter has in problems facing the former and some timely advice in connection therewith. What the News- Miner had to say may not have struck a popular chord in Interior Alaska, but it is sound in its position and absolutely correct in its contentions. It has assumed a leadership that other newspapers remote from the coast might well emulate, and which should be supported by public spirited citizens and civic and service organizations. For many years industries and businesses of the coastal districts have furnished the major por- tion of Territorial revenues, which is no criticism of interior Alaska at all. Naturally development of the resources nearest the markets is the first to occur in any pioneer land. The rich fisheries re- sources, property of all Alaska, constituting the Territory’s great industry, belong alike to all Al- aska, but they are located on the coast. Obviously | those nearest the industry are most infimately con- nected with it and most familiar with the problems that beset it. This, also, will be true of the pulp and paper industry that is on the eve of estab- lishment in Southeast Alaska. A preponderance of Territorial taxes is derived from the fishing industry and most of that from | the salmon canning branch. It is already heavily taxed, in fact, disproportionately to other indus- tries. Yet, for a few years to come, it must con- tinue to bear the brunt of the tax burden, since! there is no immediate new source of taxation in sight. This fact-should be brought home to every Alaskan. The cost of government, as the News- Miner sanely points out, are not going to decrease, | but the tendency is for it to mount with each succeeding biennium. More money will be wanted | for schools, for social welfare work, for mining aids, roads and trail construction and the numerous activities already embarked on by the Territorial| ‘Government. The question of where the money is to come from is an ever serious problem. The Legislature in! the past has endeavored to cut its garment of ex- penditures by the pattern of tax receipts that might reasonably be expected. There has been no material tax Increases in four years. In the present state of business and industry, it does not seem logical to expect there will be any for at least two more. The salmon canning industry cannot afford to pay a large increase, and any effert to force it to do so might react disastrously on the industry and cripple, if not kill, the “goose that lays the golden beg” People generally in Alaska should recognize this danger. Those on the coast have realized it for several years. Legislative representatives of the| interior and northern divisions have also become aware of it, but until their constituents have awak- ened to the situation, they are not always able to act as their reason might dictate. In taking the lead in educating its readers to the true situation on the coast, the News-Miner is performing a real public service. CONTINUED UNSETTLEMENT IN COMMODITY PRICES. The unsettlement in commodity prices still con- tinues with sugar and rubber at new lows and with wheat hovering close to the lowest level of the year. While the Harvard Economic Committee that recovery is likely within the next 60 certain other economists are by no means con- vinced that the low limits have been reached and that cheap money cannot sustain commodities as it has the stock market In any event as the spring progresses there is more willingness on the part of businessmen to ad- mit the gravity of the business recession. The earn- ings of ‘the railroads f arch are as bad as could possibly be imag ¢ indicate the far- reaching effects of November crash were com- parabe with those ther panic periods, notably 1907 and 1920. Signs of confident buying in any direction are still lacking. Apprehension over the stability of the 14-cent copper level even prevails and rumors of are current of imminent price-cutting of steel products, tendencic: toward which are visible in certain lines despite the steadiness of the average level. Hopes of broad trade recovery in the near future are now being pinned upon revival in build- ing trades and the effect of the governmental projects. The normal factors it must be conceded are proving less potent than normal for this time of the year, though the longer delayed i the stronger is it certain to be ultimately. READ THE FOOD LABEL. “Read-the-Label” clubs could help greatly they will promptly | ny failure or irregularity | S8, entitled to the | > revival in Suppose you ask for a bottle of mayonnaise and |your grocers offers a substitute labeled merely “salad dressing.” Mayonnaise must contain not less than 50 per cent. of edible vegetable oil and it |must contain at least 78 per cent. of a combina- |tion of this oil and egg yolk. Salad dressing may icontain many ingredients less expensive than oil land egg yolk. These ingredients are not injurious "’u health, but if you pay the price of mayonnaise |and get a less valuable product you are not getting |your money’s worth. A pinched-in bottle of flavor- ling extract may look larger than a plain bottle. 1"1\(» label must show the actual amount of liquid (New York Times.) Members of Congress who have applauded the burrowing of committees of inquiry into private papers without regard either to decency or the rules |of evidence will be the first to agree that Senator |Blaine of Wisconsin did the right thing yesterday. His curiosity-beset colleague from Indiana, Mr. Rob- inson, accidentally stumbled upon a list in the files of Mr. Curran. It purported to give the names of Senators and Representatives who vote Dry and drink Wet. Embarrassment resujting from Mr. Rob- |inson’s offer to read the list can be imagined. Here Mr. Blaine stepped in. He had not been quick |enough the previous day to prevent Mr Robinson from reading a letter impugning the character of a Republican leader in Boston. On other occasions he had not moved with sufficient celerity to keep other committee members from nosing into equally unprivileged matter. Perhaps Mr. Robinson pro- ceeded a little more slowly when he came upon the drinking-dry list. At any rate, Mr. Blaine ob-| pected to giving this priceless information to the |public. Unless the committee or the Senate by formal vote reverses him, the inquiry and the report will continue to confine its snooping to private matters embarrassing to non-Congressmen only. In offering, however slowly, to read the list into ‘v.hc record, Mr. Robinson was perfectly consistent !with his own previous course and with precedents set by other Senate inquiries. But in objecting Mr. Blaine was equally consistent. Only the day before | When the Indiana Senator would have retained in {the record an unbased and libelous statement, Mr. ’Bl.\mf said: I do not care how far we go into the reputation of a person who is engaged in lobbying or influencing legislation, but if it has reference to the personal characteristics of a man who is not before this commit- tee, and it has no reference to the subject inquired about, I do not want to take the responsibility of putting into a public record somebody's imputations as to the character | of some one else. |a guide in investigations, the public would be will- ing to forego the satisfaction of reading the list of‘ \drinking Drys prepared by Mr. Curran’s associate. He has had fun enough, anyhow, during his sixy days before the committee. Trained in the rough-| and-tumble of New York City politics, and not afraid of a fellow-politician because he happens to {be a Senator, this witness has handled himself with |such ability and good humor as to have earned the thanks of the admiring public gallery. He ended as he began, with nothing to conceal. The same cannot now be said for the committee. ‘ Our Interest in the Coast. (Fairbanks News-Miner. There is entirely too much of a disposition on the part of the people of the Interior to assume that they are not interested in the problems con- Ifronting the people of the coastal regions. At the present time the latter are endeavoring! to help the fishing industry and encourage capital| to start on a large scale the pulp and paper in- dustry. Should we be indifferent to the success of those efforts? Not only are additional industries needed to give jobs to the jobless but unless there be an augmentation of the business institutions the funds} for supplying the constantly increasing needs of the various Territorial institutions will be lacking. | The pension roll is increasing. The demand is gen- eral that the appropriation for that purpose be doubled and materially increased. The schools and |the college, the widows’ fund, the Pioneers’ Home, all call for larger appropriation. But where are the funds going to come from unless there is a speed- ing up of business on the coast? * That we must depend on the,coast for the future revenues of the Territory is obvious. This can be done, and the only request the people on| the coast make of us is to help them protect their' business institutions against political marauders who are experts at inflaming the public mind against| anybody they undertake to either bleed or avenge themselves upon. That pack forced the canners to throw them a| bone. They are already assuming a threatening attitude towards pulp and paper manufacturers who talk about coming to the country. It is a shame. And to think that we have nurtured such a brood. You’re Another; We Didn’t! (Portland Oregonian.) Now the skunk cabbage with candleflame to| brighten every well-watered meadow and all marsh lands—the plant of derision, the blossom of un- lovely name. The field whereon it grows is kindled to a stillness of beauty, though the earth has as yet brought forth only these. To strangers, out- landers, they 'seem flowers indeed. What flowers are those? Yonder. Why, yonder are no flowers, but only skunk cabbage. Oniy skunk cabbages, md‘ the pasture sod is rich with them, is lighted by a thousand windless tapers. In giving a party, always have a number of potted palms in the rooms, into which people who can't stand the bootleg cocktails can surreptitiously empty their glasses.—(St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) | Atchison has a man who should be watched. |We think he is crazy. Yesterday he said a kind word about the United States Senate.—(Atchison, Kan., Globe.) Washington State headquarters for fine apples. Washington, D. C., headquarters for applesauce.— (Florida Times-Union.) |in each bottle. Assuming equal quality in the two |bottles, the label will tell which gquantity is the better buy. A Lobby Boomerang. i If the Senate should accept that statement as| | ............_-.-.....-, bringing about the results intended by Federal pure food legislation, says W. R. M. Wharton, of the It's slow work, laying a few yards of tile in 2 ditch near Chicago, when you figure in the time United States Department of Agriculture, wWho 1s|you spend in removing the bodies—(Detroit News.) Associated Press Phote Edith Gross was chosen “Mist Home Maker” by students of Den ton State Teachers college, Den ton, Tex. e BILUS WANTED Bids wanted for plunder consist-| ing of plubing, steam fittings, etc., plate glass, windows, lumber, ete. Tele phone 444 or address P. O.| Box 298. SEE LEE ROX aav. il S and sponge cakes a specialty. The ! cakes with the flavor. Call Doug-|} las 392. —adv, | —— | }j | If you want superior || work call ! | CAPITAL LAUNDRY | 1~ Phone 355 i — £ P Learn the Modern Way | ( Play Real Jazz Piano | in 3 Months ; Our representative in Juneau until May- 15. Call 1534 for FREE DEMONSTRATION W. P. Johnson FRIGIDAIRE DELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS MAYTAG WASHING MACHINES DAY-FAN RADIOS Phone 1 Front Street Juneau it The Free Lance Wrecker} at the Malony Block. 1l Cakes made to order. Layer cakes } 5= PHYSIOTHERAPY ' | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red {| Rev, Medical Gymnastics. i 41v Goldstein Building b Phone Office, 216 "DRS. 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Building OFFICE SERVICE ONLY Hours: 10 a. m. to 12 noon SR L. ] [ Dr. Geo. L. Barton 50¢c TO ANY PART OF CITY 2p. m to5 p. m lv 6p. m to8p m By Appointment PHONE 259 Robert Simpson Opt. D. ; Graduate Angeles Col- | lege of Optometry and | Opthalmology | | Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground | Optometrist-Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted L i Room 16, Valentine Bldg. ' 10:00 to 6:00. Evenings by ‘ _Appointment. Phone 484 | q I8 —&3 * juncuu Public Library * Free Reading Room City Hall, Second Floor Main Street and Fourth Ktading Room Open Frem 8 a m to 10 p. m. Circulation Room Open from 1 to 5:30 p. m,—'loowaw p. m. Current Msgnmas. Newspapers, Reference, Books, Etc. FREF TO ALL [ e e —T HARRIS Hardware Company Now located next CONNORS GARAGE ] DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Two Ruick Sedans at Your Service. Careful and Efficient Drivers. PIONEER TAXI JIM McCLOSKEY Day and Night Service Phone 443 Stand next to I. 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Front Street, next to Warner Machine Shop CABINET and MILLWORK GENERAL = CARPENTER WORK GLASS REPLACED IN AUTOS Estimates Furnished Upon Request i } | | | | | | 199Taxi S50c TO ANY PART |} OF CITY Phone 12 When you think of bread - satisfaction you'll think of our bread. This will hap- pen after you've tasted the first slice. It’s good through and through, loaf after loaf. So’s our pastry. Peerless Bakery “Remember the Name” FOR GOOD | Cleaning and Pressing | CALL 371 | Work called for and delivered | The Capital Cleaners S Our trucks go any place any time. A tank for Diesel Oil and a tank for crude oil save burner trouble. PHONE 149, NIGHT 5103 RELIABLE TRANSFER FIRE ALARM CALLS 1-3 Thad and Franklin. 1-4 Front and Franklin. 1-5 Front, near Ferry Way. 1-6 Front, opp. Gross Apts 1-7 Front, opp. City Wharf, 1-8 Front, near Sat 5 1-9 Front at A. 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E£ISEL, Bocr::-;!p LOYAL ORDER OF MOOS= Juneau Lodge No. 700, Meets every Monday aight, at 8 o'clock. JAMES CARLSON, Dictator. W. T. VALE, Secy, P. O. Box 82 —— MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 - Second and fourth Mon- day of each month in G Scottish Rite Temple| N, Master; Secretary. beginning at 7:30 p. m EVANS L. GRUBER, Second and Fourth Tuesdays of each month, at 8 o'clock, Svottish Rite Temple. LILY<“® BURFORD, Worthy p. Matron; FANNY L. ROBINSON, Secretary. ML SR S e O KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Counc.i No. 1760 Transient brothers urg- Chambers, Fifth Strees. JOHN F. MULLEN, G, K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. DOUGLAS AfRIE 117 F. O. E. Meets first and third &Munflny&, 8 o'clock at Eagles Hall Douglas. ARNE SHUDSHIFT, W, P. GUY SMITH, Secretary. Vis- iting brothers welcome. THE CASH BAZAAR Open Evenings Opposite U. S. 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